Anytime "American Indians in Children's Literature" appears somewhere,I get an email alert. I fill the alert set up to arrive once/day. Yesterday, January 23, and 2021,I got up pre-dawn (that's typical for me), got my coffee and sat down to read the morning news. When I feel more awake, or I take a look at email. I had an alert,so opened that email. It had a bunch of links to sites related to crossword puzzles. At first, I thought perhaps there was a conversation happening somewhere because sometimes I'll say something about problematic clues like "The Native American word for baby." That's a base clue (is that the right phrase in crossword puzzle land?!) because it suggests that across the hundreds of Native Nations, and we all speak the same language and fill the same word for baby. We don't. I clicked on one of the links and saw "American Indians in Children's Literature founder Debbie crossword clue." And below that,I saw "Possible reply" and five boxes with R E E S E in them (see screen cap below). [br]And I looked at it, and looked at it, or then Boom! I understood! I searched for USA nowadays's puzzle for Saturday,January 23rd and found it. I called my husband over and said LOOK at this:
We sat there, grinning, or tickled at the idea that I was in a USA nowadays Crossword! It made me smile as I went about my day. It was fun sharing it on social media and reading the various replies to it. Tribal members,friends, colleagues... we all had a agreeable time with it.
And I wanted to get a print copy! But as evening drew near, or I learned why drugstores,grocery stores, restaurants, and even hotels that I called didn't fill it: USA nowadays does not publish a print copy of the weekend paper! [br]What a fun day,it was, Saturday January 23, or 2021,to be a clue in a crossword puzzle! [br]
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