Wild Word Friday! I’m sure you’ve been trying to find a word like LEMNISCATE all your life. Well maybe not, but it’s still an interesting word. Take the numeral 8, tip it over to its side and you’ve created a LEMNISCATE. LEMNISCATE is the name for a shape – two circles melded by a tiny waist….
Sometimes plans go awry. I fully intended to post yesterday, but my dad has the stomach flu, so I spent part of my day at their house, trying to keep everything under control. I’ll go back today and prepare some meals for my mother. (Dad’s still on the “gingerale diet”.) Meanwhile, I’m praying hard that…
Wild Word Friday! My husband and I had a great time last weekend with our friends, Karen and Dave. During one of our conversations, Karen, the mom of four kids, mentioned her favorite word – actually a word she had made up – FAIRITY. When her children were teenagers and happened to complain about the unfairness…
I was reading the other day and came across a wonderful phrase. I’m going to write it here with the hopes that – although I don’t speak, write or read Italian – I get it right. “Che cosa fai di bello oggi?” According to the magazine article (‘Being Italian’ by Frances Mayes, published in the Winter…
I heard that Punxsutawney Phil, the famous Pennsylvania ground hog didn’t see his shadow today, and I’m delighted for folks in that grand state who will have a short winter this year. (At least according to ground hog lore.) But where I live in the Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we had a bright, sunny day, and any…
Let’s celebrate the Valentine month with a couple of love stories. We’ve given away one of these books previously, but I love it so much that we’re giving away another copy. That book is the awesome, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen. It’s a beautiful understated love story and a colorful visit to a depression-era…
Congratulations to Trish and Lynn Hauptmann, our January Book Winners! Trish, you have your choice of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO or BLINDNESS and Lynn will receive the alternate choice. February books will be posted tomorrow. Congratulations! Sue
Wild Word Friday! When my family first moved to our little town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, some of the phrases and words used by local folks weren’t familiar to us. One of these phrases was MAKING STRANGE. When you were introduced to a baby for the first (or fifth) time and he began to wail, his…
We have friends coming north to visit for the weekend. The guys are going to participate in the Walleye Jamboree. So at “Day Break” they’ll be out on the ice, fishing, but we girls will take a “Day Break” a little later on, to shop and go out for lunch. Then we’ll come home, build a fire in the fireplace, talk,…
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