HOST
Wild Word Friday! It’s unusual to find a word that in its noun form has two very opposite meanings, but HOST is one of those contrary words. In its most ancient form – ghosti, an Indo-European word – it meant stranger or guest. Right away you can see the dichotomy. A guest is someone we…
PUPPY LOVE! Shih Tzu
When my daughter was sixteen, we bought her a Shih Tzu puppy that she named Ickabod, Icky for short. He was black and white and about the cutest thing you ever saw. I thought you might like to put a smile into your day with a few puppy pictures of Shih Tzu puppies, a dog…
March 13/13 Book Winner!
Congratulations to Lisa Cottle Zimmerman the winner of Olivia Newport’s novel THE DILEMMA OF CHARLOTTE FARROW! Lisa, email your address to sue@sueharrison.com and I’ll send your free book to you ASAP! Sorry, Lisa, no cake! Just a free book!!
UMAMI
Wild Word Friday! Did you know that in addition to the commonly known tastes of sweet, sour, bitter and salty, human taste buds can distinguish one more taste? That taste was identified in 1908 by a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University, and he named it UMAMI. UMAMI, a Japanese word, means pleasant savory taste….
March 2013 Free Book!
Our March Free Book is a fantastic novel set in the late 1800s: THE DILEMMA OF CHARLOTTE FARROW by Olivia Newport. From the back cover: “While the rest of Chicago focuses on the enormous spectacle of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Charlotte Farrow’s attentions are entirely on one small boy – her boy – whom…
FLASH
Wild Word Friday! The word FLASH comes to modern English from a rather unusual source, the Middle English word, flasken or flaschen, which means to rush along with a splashing sound. It’s somewhat of a mystery how a word that initially referred to the sound made by a rushing liquid, morphed into a word that…
Your Pet / Wof!
I have so enjoyed sharing everyone’s pet photos, and Your-Pet! Wednesdays have been very special for me. However, I now find myself running out of material and am considering a variety of new possibilities for my Wednesday posts. By next Wednesday, I’ll let you know what I’ve decided and which direction I’m going. Meanwhile, for…
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