Happy Thanksgiving!
On this Wild Word Friday, I’m sending you prayers and wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with many blessings! From my house to yours – Love, Sue
GOBBLE!
Wild Word Friday! To consider the origin of the word GOBBLE, we need to go back to the Celts, who gave us the word gober, meaning to gulp down or swallow. From gober we get gobbet, a morsel of food, particularly meat, and we also find the related word, gob, in various Gaelic dialects, which…
FIRE
Wild Word Friday! Harrison Summer Memories… I cannot site any linguistic source to back my claim, but I’m sure that one of the first words in any human language was FIRE. I can, however, cite a very ancient word that has come down to English through thousands of years nearly unchanged from the Indo-European language…
Your Pet/ MITZIE!
Mitzie, Up For Adoption This your pet is a little different since the cat today is also a rescue pet, but is still up for adoption if anyone would like her. She lives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the Eastern end, and is being taken care of by Cheryl and Dan, who have rescued many…
November ’12 Free Book!
Our Give-Away book for November 2012 is WILDFLOWERS FROM WINTER by Katie Ganshert. Katie is one of my agency-mates, and I’m excited to be able to offer her book this month! Our edition is a new trade paperback. From the back cover: “A young architect at a prestigious Chicago firm, Bethany Quinn has built a…
KEMPY
Wild Word Friday! I’m a weaver. I’m not a great weaver, just a hobbyist, but I’m always amazed when the magic of a warped loom coaxes weft threads and yarns into lovely fabrics, and I’m always amazed when I think of those first weavers who came up with the idea of cloth. Wow. When I…
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