PATRIOT
Wild Word Friday! When I was 4 1/2 years old, my family moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. That was way back in the 1950s, and we brought something very unusual with us. A television set. Prior to life in the U.P., we had lived in the Boston area of Massachusetts and in…
July 2012 Free Book!
If you read yesterday’s Your Pet! blog post, you met novelist Sandra D. Bricker’s beautiful rescue collie, Sophie Matilda, who inspired Sandie so much that Sophie has a starring role in Sandie’s novel, LOVE FINDS YOU IN HOLIDAY FLORIDA. How could we pass up this perfect opportunity to give away that same novel as our…
Your Pet! Sophie Matilda
Sophie Matilda, A Star! Sophie Matilda was a sad and lonely (pregnant) pup when she was abandoned on the sweltering streets of Tampa, Florida. But she was destined to be a star, proven by the fact that a chain of angels led her to the home of Author Sandra D. Bricker — who put the…
HORDE
Wild Word Friday! When you study languages and find an unusual looking or sounding word that is similar or the same in many languages, you’ve probably stumbled upon the verbal evidence of some widespread historic happening. HORDE is a just such a word. English: HORDE; German: HORDA; French: HORDA; Polish: HORDA. All come from the…
Your Pet! Mischa!
Mischa, a desktop cat! Mischa’s owner, Janie Chang, a novelist, tells us that, “Mischa (now age 7) and her brothers had been abandoned at a lakeside cottage. Fortunately a neighbor took in the kitties and put the word out. We went for a look and were instantly besotted. She’s confident, sociable, and cheerful, but well,…
June ’12 Free Book Winner!
Congratulations to our June 2012 Book Winner – Merilee O’Polka-Hall. Merilee, I’ll get that copy of Joel C. Rosenberg’s novel, THE TEHRAN INITIATIVE, to you ASAP! Congratulations! Next week, I’ll announce the July 2012 Free Book! Blessings! Sue
SEICHE
Wild Word Friday! I really didn’t know that such a thing as a SEICHE (pronounced saysh) even existed until I saw one in our bay. So what am I talking about? Some strange extraterrestrial being? An exotic fresh water fish species? Nope. I’m talking about the tendency of an enclosed body of water to churn …
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