CHEMISE
Wild Word Friday! Once upon a time a long, long time ago, (when I was in the fourth grade), my mother styled my hair into CHEMISE bangs and I wore a baby blue CHEMISE dress. The dropped-waist-box-pleats look was really in, and I was a fourth-grade fashion maven. At least I thought I was. For those…
About Pet Peeves
ABOUT YOU! Ten years ago, my husband and I bought a dog. Because of family allergy problems we needed a non-shedding breed, and, because our son and his wife were soon to start a family, we wanted a dog that was good with children. Thus we choose a miniature schnauzer. He was the cutest little…
Oct. 2011 Free Book!
Our October Free Book is the 2011 Christy Award winner in the category of Historical Romance, THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE by Julie Klassen. From the back cover: “Banished from the only home she’s ever known, Mariah Aubrey hides herself away in an abandoned gatehouse on a distant relative’s estate. There she supports herself the…
ORCHESTRA
My Uncle Bill (Wilson Sawyer) was a symphony conductor and composer. Thus, ORCHESTRA was an early word in my vocabulary, and I can’t remember a time in my life when music wasn’t a central joy. I wasn’t very old when I realized that to be a good musician you have to have a gift of physical…
About Anger
About You! I recently took my father-in-law to his doctor for a check-up. Shortly after Dad was escorted back to the examining rooms, two men also in the waiting room began a political argument that eventually became so intense they were standing nose-to-nose screaming at each other. The argument was still raging after my father-in-law was done with…
ORANGE
Wild Word Friday! My niece Amy and I had a little conversation a few weeks ago about the aggravation of trying to fit a word into a poem when that word has nothing that rhymes with it. Of course, the word ORANGE was the first one Amy mentioned. It didn’t take me long after our conversation to decide…
About Autumn
About You! This week autumn officially begins. I don’t want to cause controversy, but here where I live, it actually starts in August. That’s when we usually have our first night frost (not this year!) and also when you see the first bit of color in a tree, and the flowers start to look a…
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