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CANOE

Wild Word Friday! It’s difficult to find anything more exciting, in a quiet gentle way, than paddling down a slow river in a CANOE. I’m sure many people would rather have their excitement come to them in a more dramatic fashion, but a slow CANOE ride is just my style. A Voyaguer’s CANOE in a…

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FLAT

Wild Word Friday! Last week we received a letter in the mail from our 7-year-old granddaughter, Rylee. When I opened the letter, I was surprised to find “FLAT Stanley” inside. According to the information our granddaughter sent, Flat Stanley loves to go on adventures, and so he decided to take a little trip to our…

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LACE

Wild Word Friday! When I was three years old, my mother bought me a beautiful pink dress with LACE at the neck and sleeves and tucked into the layered skirt. I remember loving that dress – until the first time I put it on. It was SO PICKY. Ow ow ow! My poor mom. She…

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APRON

Wild Word Friday! When I was a little girl, I was a very sloppy eater. I remember my parents having a serious discussion about how to deal with my inability to keep the food on my fork and off my clothes.  Admonition, scolding, and shaming just didn’t seem to work, and I truly wanted to…

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BISCUIT

Wild Word Friday! My Great Grandma Clare made the best BISCUITs I’ve ever tasted.  They were the melt-in-your-mouth kind of BISCUITs, and, because I never did get her recipe, I have spent my adult life trying to duplicate her masterpiece, without success. So, as a tribute to my Great Grandma Clare, I decided take a…

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INFLUENZA

Wild Word Friday! We’re being told quite often via the television, the Internet,  and various new sources that this year the United States is being hit hard by the INFLUENZA virus. My husband and I have many parent care responsibilities. His dad is 93, my dad is almost 86, and my mother is 84. We…

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SPLADE

Wild Word Friday! My friend Trish responded to a FaceBook post in which I asked which kitchen gadget you would most hate to give up. She responded by saying, her SPLADE. Trish is from Australia, and so I immediately asked her if a SPLADE was an Australian kitchen gadget, because I’d never heard of one…

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BELL

Wild Word Friday! I love to hear BELLs, see them, decorate with them, and enjoy their music.  How better to greet the New Year by ringing it in with BELLs!   The word BELL comes to modern English from an Old English word – bellan – which means to roar! I’m wondering if those very…

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