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JULY 2023 FREE BOOK!
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We have an amazing book for you this July, a very appropriate work for the month that we in the United States celebrate our Independence Day. Written by Fred Kaplan, a well-known and much celebrated biographer and poet, HIS MASTERLY PEN, A BIOGRAPHY OF JEFFERSON THE WRITER will take its place as one of the…
July 2019 FREE BOOK!
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Our FREE BOOK this month is the novel LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly. I found this book to be absolutely mesmerizing and uplifting. From the back cover comes this quote from New York Times bestselling author, Beatriz Williams. “Rich with historical detail and riveting to the end, LILAC GIRLS weaves the lives of three…
QUDAX
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I have heard experts and non-experts postulate that after acquiring language, humankind’s next huge step toward civilization was learning how to make and use fire. The Aleut word for fire is QUDAX. It’s spoken with short almost schwa-like vowels and a very rough, back-of-the-throat Q and X. I can’t begin to say it in the…
Eastern European Research Trip – Romania!
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So early in the morning, we bid farewell to our sweet little room on the Viking Ship Jarl. We board a bus and begin our trip through the countryside on the way to Romania’s capital city of Bucharest. One of our stops includes the Village Museum, with authentic dwellings from various areas of Romania. Have…