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…
LAVENDER
Wild Word Friday! In spring 2010 I gathered my courage and bought a LAVENDER plant for my garden. The reason that the purchase was brave (Or maybe foolish – have you noticed that sometimes bravery and foolhardiness are mistaken for one another?) was because I live in a Zone 3 to 4 area for plants and LAVENDER is a…
About Roses
About You! A couple of years ago, my husband came home from a conference and asked me an usual question. What is my favorite color of roses? One of the inspirational speakers asked the guys there about their wives’ or moms’ or girlfriends’ preferences in this regard. The speaker was trying to illustrate that although we…
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