FUR
Wild Word Friday! If you lived thousands of years ago, your choice of clothing materials would have been pretty much limited to animal skins, especially if you lived where winters loomed fierce and cold. A few groups of people wore birdskins (the Aleuts of ancient Alaska, for example), but before anybody figured out how…
Your Pet! GRACIE
GRACELAND’S SWEET BUTTERCUP – GRACIE GRACIE’S Mom, Kandice, says that Gracie is everything a Golden Retriever should be. “She is sweet, loyal, gentle, loves all people especially children and lives to retrieve her ball… our dog of a lifetime!!!” GRACIE welcomes warm weather with a field full of forget-me-nots. Welcome, beautiful GRACIE, to the YOUR…
JUBILEE
Wild Word Friday! Our word today – JUBILEE – comes to us from the ancient Hebrew via a long journey through Europe. Every fifty years, according to a law that has been recorded in the Old Testament book of Leviticus (chapter 25, verse 10): “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty…
May ’12 Free Book!
THE PURSUIT OF LUCY BANNING by Olivia Newport This month’s free book was written by a friend of mine, Olivia Newport. It’s a great book and a great escape, and filled with intricate details of life on the exclusive Prairie Avenue in the 1890s among Chicago’s rich and famous. From the back cover: Lucy Banning…
Your Pet! HUDSON
HUDSON! Yes, I know it’s the first Wednesday in May, but sometimes a reminder of what we’ve just been through makes all of us a little more grateful for what we have now. So we have four-year-old HUDSON – a cockapoo – in the photographs that his Mom, Brooke, took in March before and after…
SWARD
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…
Your Pet! OSCAR
Beautiful Oscar! According to his mom, Lisa, “Oscar is a spoiled rotten Pomeranian.” We venture to add another word to that description, Lisa – Beautiful! Four-year-old Oscar loves to dress up in fancy clothes and collars. He likes to play fetch, “all the time,” says Lisa. When he stands on his hind legs and waves his…
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