These earrings have just found a sweet nook in my jewelry box. They’re replicas of the glass floats used years and years ago for fishing nets by Asian and sometimes American fishermen. Nestled against a boomerang given to me by an Australian friend (Thank you, Trish!), and a replica of a scrimshawed walrus tusk, are…
I’m delighted to announce a virtual library event via Zoom, hosted by the Wood Dale Public Library of Wood Dale, Illinois. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, August 11 at 7 p.m. Central Time. Since I always get the math wrong on time zones, I’ll let you figure that out for where you live. I’ll…
Wild Word Friday! ANIIDAM TUGIDAA is the Aleut designation for our month of July. ANIIDAM TUGIDAA means Month When Sea Mammal Pups are Born. When I work within a Native American language, I always love to see how words and names are so connected with nature. That’s not unusual considering that the survival of Native…
Wild Word Friday! I thought it might be fun on the first Friday of each month to highlight the Aleut name – and translation – for that month. The Aleut word for June is IGUUGUM TUGIDAA. The second G in that phrase should have a circumflex accent (ˆ) over it, but I couldn’t get my computer…
I’m delighted to announce that today, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, all six of my Alaska novels have been released as Ebooks by Open Road Integrated Media!! I thought that you might like to hear how this came about. Last August my husband mentioned that we really should look into my old contracts and see if…
Wild Word Friday! Linguists agree that the name ALASKA comes to us from a Native word. There’s some disagreement about which word and even which language. Generally, the consensus is that ALASKA means The Great Land, derived from the Aleut word alyeska, which also means “that which the sea breaks against.” I’m not here to…
Wild Word Friday! I thought we might have a short lesson in the Ahtna Athabascan language today. Athna is the language of the Ahtna ethnic group in the southwestern area of mainland Alaska. The original Native speakers lived in central Alaska. Today there are less than 100 Native speakers of the 4 dialects of the…
The third book of The Storyteller Trilogy, cover art by Open Road Integrated Media! Hope you love it as much as I do!
Open Road Integrated Media’s cover for the second book of The Storyteller Trilogy! What do you think?
Wild Word Friday!! This week has been an exciting one for me as my eBook publisher, Open Road Integrated Media (visit them at www.openroadmedia.com), has been REVEALing the cover art for my six Alaska books, one book each day, Monday through Saturday. The books will be available for purchase from all eBook retailers beginning May…
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