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…
Lori, owner of the lovely “tuxedo” cat in our photo today, named him Pussn Boots after the children’s story. I’m sure Lori’s kitten is a swashbuckling fellow. I remember my mom reading that story to us as children and how much I loved hearing about that brave cat’s adventures. But I have to admit that…
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…
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…
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…
Wild Word Friday! Do you remember when you were a kid and there was something absolutely delicious about being pretend-scared? Not truly afraid, just pretend-scared. When children go out to trick-or-treat, they dress up like monsters and GOBLINs and black cats and ghosts and pretend to be scary, and, when they come to our doors…
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