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,…
Today my mom had her second cataract surgery. All went well, and that is due to a very fine doctor and an excellent and understanding hospital staff. My mom has dementia. It’s not Alzheimer’s. She knows that she doesn’t know. I’m not sure if that is easier or more difficult than the alternative. My mother-in-law…
Wild Word Friday! Recently my friend, Lynn, and I were discussing a topic dear to both of us – words – and she brought up the word FLUSTRATED. She mentioned that FLUSTRATED is a combination of flustered and frustrated and isn’t really a legitimate word, although people have begun to use it so frequently that FLUSTRATED…
Our mail today included more than bills and ad flyers. I received an advanced reader copy (ARC) of Linda Windsor’s new novel, Thief, from her publisher David C. Cook. They’ve asked me for an endorsement (a blurb)! I can’t wait to read Thief! Linda writes my kind of books – history and intrigue. Thief is set…
Help! I’m working on a novel (romantic suspense) that includes a ten-year-old boy who is a musical prodigy. He is very gifted but dorky and shy. By the end of the book, he will also be a hero. I’m having a tough time giving him a name. I either come up with something that sounds totally…
Dusk is falling, and soon my husband will drive home on his snowmobile from an evening of ice fishing. I look out at the bay in front of our house and watch the sparkle of lights from ice shanties. The sun has set, but night has not yet claimed the sky. The tops of spruce trees are lace set…
Wild Word Friday! Okay let’s learn a word very important in the Aleut language – AHVAVA. Ah-Va-what? On one of our research trips to Alaska for my books, my husband and I stayed with a wonderful Aleut family on the island of St. George in the Pribilof Islands of the Bering Sea. The month of our…
WooHoo! Wild Word Friday! I’m doing something a little different today for Wild Word Friday. We ‘re going to talk about the business of banishing words. Say what? Since 1976, Lake Superior State University, a little college located on the eastern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has been banishing words. The brainchild of PR genius Bill Rabe,…
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