My parents tell me that I don’t remember my first puppy. Her name was Sniffer, and she was the first of three Sniffers in my life, after Sniffer came a multitude of cats and dogs, a turtle (Seedy) a bird (Pip, after the beloved canary in Little Women, although my Pip was a parakeet) and…
Our February 2012 Free Book is 33 Men, “Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners”. From the cover blurb, “Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of this remarkable story of human endurance, survival, and heroism. Based on more than one hundred interviews with the miners, their families, and…
Wild Word Friday! Once upon a time, the English had a law that required a homebuilder to get a permit before he could build eaves that allowed water to drip on land owned by someone else. Not only were eaves sometimes a controversial matter in ancient England, in the 1600s they gave us the verb EAVESDROP,…
About You! I’m a brunette. Well, I was a brunette. Now I’m a brunette thanks to the skills of my colorist. (No, this is not me. I wish it were!) For a while, I actually went gray, and I was fine with that until the first time someone “carded” me as a senior citizen. Who? Me? Wait a…
Wild Word Friday! Here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we are very aware of the difference between a snow storm and a BLIZZARD. You can drive in a snow storm. It’s not fun, and it is dangerous, but you can. In a snow storm, you can walk to your neighbor’s house. In a BLIZZARD you shouldn’t…
The men in my life don’t like vegetables. I do my best to get a green salad on the table at supper each night, but other than that – except for corn or peas – I have little success. My father-in-law once took me aside and gently said, “You don’t have to work so hard at…
Wild Word Friday! When my 92-year-old father-in-law refers to electricity, he says ‘lectricity. The process of dropping an initial syllable when pronouncing a word is so common in human speech that it’s been given a name – APHAERESIS (uh-fur-eh-sus). APHAERESIS – the word – may be totally unfamiliar to us in our everyday speech, but APHAERESIS…
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