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SARCASM

Wild Word Friday! In researching the word SARCASM, I discovered that it definitely deserves the title Wild Word. SARCASM isn’t usually a part of my repertoire, but a couple of years ago a person told me that they were going to do something which I knew would hurt the feelings of an elderly person dear…

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Your Pet! SISSI

SISSI enjoying the Swiss Sun SISSI comes to our Your Pet! Family all the way from Switzerland. You might remember her “brothers” Quincy and Nils from our February 29, 2012, Your Pet! post. SISSI’s Mom, Monia, tells us that  SISSI is the shy cat in the family, although lately has begun to make an appearance…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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