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CRAB
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Wild Word Friday! All the meanings of the word CRAB – a shellfish with pincers, a louse, an unpleasant and sour person – all come to us along various routes from the same Indo-European wordbase gerbh-, which means to scratch. At first that may seem like a strange meaning to have spawned all those various…
May 2019 Free Book Winner!!
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Congratulations to Jim Sylvester our May 2019 Book Winner! His reply to our contest entry question, “Have you ever been in a swamp or swale?”, was to ask if his front yard in Kentucky counted. They’ve been getting lots of rain this spring!! Jim message me your address and I’ll send WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING…
February 2014 2nd Free Book!
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Our second February 2014 Free Book is TAKEN FOR ENGLISH, a wonderful Amish romance from Olivia Newport. It’s one of those sweet books you just don’t want to put down. From the back cover: “Annie joined the Amish church based on prayerful conviction, not romantic dreams. And yet, she can’t deny she’d hoped to share…
Small Joys–Dr. Seuss
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Yep, I know. Dr. Seuss is getting a bad rap right now. I did a little research on my own. (Better than believing everything you’re told!) And yes, I found some objectionable political cartoons in his past, done during WWII. Also some illustrations in his books that could have been more politically correct. As a…
CRANBERRY
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Wild Word Friday! When the first European settlers came to North America, one of the berries they discovered to be edible was the CRANBERRY. This marsh berry comes to us via the graces of a trailing evergreen that loves lots of water. When the British settlers came to North America, they named the CRANBERRY, fen…