Wild Word Friday! I love to hear about the Scripps National Spelling Bee each year – hear about it, not watch it, because my heart aches too much for those who don’t quite make it to that coveted last-person-standing place of honor. The winner this year was Snigdha Nandipati, and the last word she…
The Tehran Initiative by New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg traps us in a world on the brink of disaster. From the back cover, “Iran has just conducted its first atomic weapons test. Millions of Muslims around the world are convinced their messiah – known as the Twelfth Imam – has just arrived…
Cleo & Nemo in their aquatic wonderland! These two beautiful goldfish are an unusual but popular breed known as the Red-capped Fancy Oranda Goldfish, a variety of carp bred to develop a hood or wen at the top of the head. As Cleo and Nemo get older, their wens will develop even more fully. Orandas…
Wild Word Friday! To be perfectly honest, OID is not a word. It’s actually a syllable, and it comes to us from the Greek suffix -oeides, which is used to indicate a form or a shape. In other words, OID indicates that something is like something else. That’s exactly how we use this suffix…
Each June, the folks on a beautiful little island in northern Lake Huron (Michigan) celebrate a lilac festival. The island is Mackinac Island, (pronounced Mac-i-naw) famous for its horses, its Victorian-era charm and of course its lilacs. For years, in my little hometown of Pickford the Mackinac horses come to our wide fields to spend…
The winner of Olivia Newport’s novel, THE PURSUIT OF LUCY BANNING is Kristin Taylor! Congratulations Kristin! I’ll post the June 2012 Free Book by the end of the week. I’m still trying to decide exactly which book of my “Free Book Stash” to choose. I’ll let you know! Blessings! Sue
Wild Word Friday! Those of us living in the USA are enduring a pre-election season of skirmishes, interviews and civilized (and some uncivilized) vitriol. So I suppose that when you see the word POLL you immediately think of all the commotion and aggravations that seem to be a part of an election year, but let’s…
SNAKES ANYONE? When most of us visit a pet store or shelter, we tend to gravitate toward the furry critters, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for Cody Stevenson a pet store visit has to include the joy of all God’s creatures, even those of the non-fur variety. Here he is…
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