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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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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