This year, one of my Christmas gifts from my son and daughter-in-law was the book SKELETONS ON THE ZAHARA by Dean King. I’ve almost finished it. What a great read!! ZAHARA is the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwreacked off the coast of Africa in 1815 and taken as slaves by desert nomads. Wow! …
To anyone who is trying to post a reply on my blog, my sincere apologies! I’m having a problem and haven’t yet figured out how to solve it. At this point, I can talk to you but you can’t talk to me. We’ll get the problem solved as soon as possible, and meanwhile, I’m so…
Happy New Year! I pray for each of you a blessed and joyous year ahead. To start it off right, let’s give away books! Because winter seems a great time to ‘hunker down’ with a classic, our January 2011 free books are both classics – one from long ago and one more recent. Your name will go into…
Congratulations to Lynn “Polilla” and Lynn Hauptmann our December free book winners! Lynn Polilla, our first winner, gets her choice of COLD SASSY TREE by Olive Ann Burns or HOME TO HOLLY SPRINGS by Jan Karon. Let me know, Lynn Polilla, which book you prefer. Congratulations to Lynn and Lynn! Check in tomorrow to post…
Wild Word Friday! Okay, you know that a word which ends in tion must have Latin roots. The Latin form is resolutio. In Middle English RESOLUTION was resolucioun. So you can see that not much has changed since those days as far as RESOLUTION goes. That’s probably good, isn’t it! Speaking of RESOLUTIONs, I think…
Wild Word Friday! What more appropriate word than JOY on this day before our Savior’s birth! This lovely word comes to English from the Old French, joie, and the Latin, gaudium. “…Behold I bring good tidings of great JOY, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city…
It just came to our attention this morning that our mail order website has not been accepting orders! Yikes! Of all the times of the year for that to happen… So if you recently placed a UP Books order for my books, and you haven’t heard anything back, your order unfortunately landed in the black hole…
When I began writing these posts for Polilla Writes, I thought I would have enough material for about a year, maybe a year and a half. It turns out that I’m much more verbose than I ever dreamed! However, the time has come for me to conclude the “Writing The Third Dimension” series. What a…
Wild Word Friday! Each year my husband Neil and I are blessed to spend some of our holidays with our little granddaughters. I’ve been making doll clothes since October and shopping for TOYS, not only for my own granddaughters, but also for the children who will receive Christmas toys through the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas…
Wild Word Friday! Christmas is getting close, so I thought it would be appropriate to investigate a Christmas-y word – MERRY. I don’t know about you, but for me MERRY brings England to mind as in “MERRY Olde”. MERRY is a very old (or olde, if you prefer) word that comes to us all the…
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