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…
I have a huge Christmas card list, but I don’t mind sitting down and writing Christmas cards. It’s actually one of the more restful activities of Christmas, not nearly so taxing as putting lights on trees or trying to figure out what to do with cookies that don’t look at all like the photo in the magazine. (You’d…
Wild Word Friday! Now that we’re all probably still eating leftovers, I thought it would be interesting to look at the word TURKEY. I’m referring to the bird not the dork. For some reason, I’ve always thought the word TURKEY had its roots in some Native American language, and it was just coincidental that a country also shared…
Our free books for the month of December are both classics within their genres. The first book, COLD SASSY TREE by Olive Ann Burns, was first published in 1984. It’s one of my favorites. From the cover, “On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of…
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