Today my father is 84! I’m always a bit amazed when I think over Dad’s life experiences. He was born in Arkansas, back when it was still a very normal thing for Arkansas farmers to use mules, not tractors. He remembers his great grandfather who was a veteran of the Civil War – and a POW (and…
We just returned from a vacation that we’ve been saving for and anticipating during the past two years. We cruised the South Caribbean, visited three new-to-us countries, indulged in gourmet dinners, saw some great musicals, made some wonderful new friends! And as great as it was to take that vacation, we’re discovering all over again that it’s…
Wild Word Friday! You probably already know that our English word LEPRECHAUN was borrowed from the Irish, actually from the Irish Gaelic – Luprachan. In even older Gaelic form (also known as Middle Irish) this word comes from two separate words – lu, which means small, and corpan, which means little body. Now if you put these two Middle…
I’m taking a little spring break this week. I don’t know about you, but cabin fever always seems to set in about this time of year, and the best cure is balmy breezes. I’ll see you on Wild Word Friday! God bless you all! Sue
Wild Word Friday! Today’s wild word was suggested by my friend Jane. In a previous Wild Word Friday post, Jane mentioned that her son was reading a book to his baby daughter and came across a word he’d never seen before – NOSEGAY. He called Jane for a definition, and she told him that it was…
Wild Word Friday! You knew I’d have to follow up last Friday’s DOG day with a CAT day, right? CATs haven’t been domesticated nearly as long as dogs, and I think most CAT lovers recognize that streak of wild in their pets. A couple of summers ago, my brother and his wife and daughter were…
A funny thing happened to me on the way to… Isn’t that how a lot of stories begin? So, a funny thing happened to me at my annual physical checkup. Always a hoot, right? Especially when your doctor tells you that he wants you to have a few more tests. Then things get scary fast. So…
This month’s free books include two page turners. One by Karen Kingsbury and the other by Kathleen Grissom. The Karen Kingsbury book, EVERY NOW AND THEN, is the story of Alex Brady whose father (a fireman) died in the twin towers attack. After his father’s death, Alex turned away from God and his family. Now 25…
Congratulations to Sarah McHatton our February 2011 Book Winner! Sarah, you have your choice of a new trade paperback edition of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen or a new hardcover large print edition of A DREAM TO CALL MY OWN by Tracie Peterson. Email me at sue@sueharrison.com to let me know your preference and…
Wild Word Friday! Few people dispute the fact that the first domesticated animal was the DOG. Anthropologists and archaeologists tell us that the DOG was common in Europe (and in Asia, too) even in Neolithic times. We have the evidence of DOG bones in ancient village sites, but we also have evidence more subtle than that – in our words. In every…
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