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…
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! ALEUT (pronounced al-yoot) is a word of undetermined origin that was used by Russian explorers to designate the people who lived on the islands and the peninsula that stretch from southwestern Alaska to divide the North Pacific from the Bering Sea. Some linguists believe that the word ALEUT was derived from the…
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