The emigrants who traveled the Oregon Trail arrived in the Willamette Valley in late fall,
I’ve been making lists since long before I could write. When I was a toddler,
During the Christmas season, we scurry to find our loved ones unique gifts, suited to
My parents never paid money for good grades, but they did pay books. At the
This year one of the many things I am grateful for is the readers of
For those of you who want an update on my writing about the Oregon Trail,
The new issue of Smithsonian magazine has a report entitled, 101 Objects That Made America.
I like well-written murder mysteries and police procedurals, and In the Woods, by Irish author
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed, is the
This week’s haunting book is a novel about a privileged Englishwoman, Ursula Todd, born in