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Wild Word Friday! SWARD is one of those words seldom heard in modern English. As a noun, it’s used to designate a grass-covered area or a field. As a verb it means to cover or become covered with grass. SWARD traces its roots to an Anglo-Saxon word, sweard, which means a skin or hide. In…
About Hair Color
About You! I’m a brunette. Well, I was a brunette. Now I’m a brunette thanks to the skills of my colorist. (No, this is not me. I wish it were!) For a while, I actually went gray, and I was fine with that until the first time someone “carded” me as a senior citizen. Who? Me? Wait a…
BONE FIRE, The Journey, 9-29-14
I have been remiss about blogging these past few months while my husband and I moved from our log home to a smaller place, easier for us to maintain and yet still close enough to our parents to continue our roles as caregivers. Although I cut back on blogging, I did my very best to…
SMALL JOYS–Seeing Past Ugly
My husband and I were walking in a nearby city when I happened to look down and see this beautiful leaf with an ugly cigarette butt on top of it. My first reaction was to feel sadness that something beautiful had been defaced. I snapped a picture, and on occasion I look at that photo…
Free Book! February 2014
Michael K. Reynolds has written a great trilogy about Irish immigrants settling in American during the 1800s. I love historical novels, and I’ve really been “caught” by Reynolds’ novels. So you won’t be surprised to learn that our first free book in February 2014 is Michael’s SONGS OF THE SHENANDOAH, an Heirs of Ireland novel….