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SELEDREORIG

Wild Word Friday! Please don’t ask me how to pronounce it, but SELEDREORIG is an Anglo-Saxon word that means “sadness for the lack of a hall.” In Anglo-Saxon days, a hall was a long rectangular community building, usually made of timber and roofed with thatch.  Most halls had a centrally located hearth. According to archaeologists, almost every Anglo-Saxon…

About Horses

When I was eight years old, my my best friend’s mom took a group of us kids to the fair. We decided to spend some of our tickets on a pony ride. I had my heart set on the little white pony. He was lovely. However, while I was waiting my turn in line for…

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CANDY

Wild Word Friday! If you’re like me, you’re trying to eat up all the CANDY left over from your holiday celebrations so that you can go on a diet and lose the weight all that CANDY piled on. If you’re not like me, you have all my admiration. And you probably didn’t gain any weight in…

About Resolutions

I have a difficult time selecting just one New Year’s resolution, so I’ve decided to follow the wisdom espoused by several of my writer friends. They’ve each selected one word as a resolution. For some reason  that seems to make the whole resolution thing a whole lot easier, and I’ve decided that for 2012 my word is JOY….

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Books I Love/Esther

The author of the Old Testament book, Esther, is unknown, but the story is set in the Persian Empire, and most of it takes place in the palace where Esther, a beautiful Jewess has become the queen of King Xerxes I. Her bravery in standing up for her own people and the outcome of the story make…

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RING

Wild Word Friday! As we are poised to RING out the old year and RING in the new, let’s take a look at the word RING. In Middle English ringen is the verb form, not too surprising. In Anglo Saxon, we add an h to give us hringan. I like saying the Anglo Saxon form. Adding that h forces…

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