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BLOND/E

Wild Word Friday!   When I was a little girl I wanted so much to trade in my brown hair for BLOND. I was quite sure that BLOND hair would work something like a magic wand. Even if nothing else about me changed, being a BLONDE would suddenly morph me into a beauty, and I…

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Your Pet! Ruby

Ruby, the caregiver! Ruby’s owner, Natalie says, “This is Ruby the Airedale. She has gotten pretty attached to our new addition who would cry every time we changed her diaper. Ruby started to bring her toys whenever she would cry! Since then Ruby has laid claim to floor space next to the crib and sleeps…

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MEASLES

Wild Word Friday!   When I was almost eight years old, my family and I were visiting my maternal grandfather. My brother Bob and I called him Granddaddy. He was a wonderful grandfather, a widower, who doted on us grandchildren.  While we were at his house, I started feeling rotten, really, really rotten. By the…

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YEN

Wild Word Friday!   It probably won’t surprise you to know that the English language borrowed the word YEN from the Chinese language, the Cantonese dialect. To the ears of an English-speaker, YEN sounds Chinese. During the mid-1800s when Chinese immigration to the United States peaked, they brought the word in-yan with them. In-yan means…

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