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1840s Guides for Travel on the Oregon Trail
Starting with the Great Migration of 1843, thousands of emigrants set out on the 2000-mile
October 22, 2025
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Starting with the Great Migration of 1843, thousands of emigrants set out on the 2000-mile
It’s mid-October, and for the last couple of weeks I’ve been noticing leaves. Washington State
For over fifteen years, I’ve been following the Write on the Sound (WOTS) conference sponsored
I’ve written before about my grandfather’s clock. It is now ticking away in my house,
The news reports recently have contained stories about the 2020 U.S. Census not reaching everyone.
Last month I wrote about reopenings. Those have continued apace, and my life is slowly
Later this year my husband and I will celebrate our 35th anniversary. We started dating,
As the saying goes, nothing is certain but death and taxes. My father-in-law died this
My husband and I just returned from a Viking cruise on the Viking Orion through
According to the Days of the Year website, July 13 is “Embrace Your Geekness Day.”
My husband’s maternal grandmother put tags and notes on many of her possessions, stating who
I had my second first piano lesson last week. My first first piano lesson was
The new issue of Smithsonian magazine has a report entitled, 101 Objects That Made America.
My first exposure to the term “suffragette” was in the song “Sister Suffragette” in the
In all the years we’ve been married, my husband and I have never spent Christmas
To my surprise, this is my 400th post, which seems worthy of mention. I last
My parents were married in June 1955, after about seven years of dating—they’d met as
On my page for writers, I mention Write Brain Trust, a group of Kansas City
Because the emigrants in my first Oregon Trail novel traveled between April and October, I
December 21 is Short Girl Appreciation Day. I am a short girl—5’1” in my stocking
A year ago I was suffering from the worst stomach flu I’d had in a