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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
After my rant last week about having to cook, which I admit is a trifling
I’ve now received all my beta readers’ feedback on the contemporary novel that is my
I went out of town last week with great plans for what I would accomplish.
I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that this year my husband and I celebrate our fortieth
It seems appropriate that on this Labor Day I am updating you on my most
I’ve mentioned before that my father was usually the photographer in our family. That means
Because of a personal commitment that will consume my time for the next few weeks,
I’ve written several posts in the past about my children as adults. The last such
Last weekend was Easter, and I reminisced about past Easter vacations. We took many vacations
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
For most of the 1979-1980 school year, my parents lived apart. My father had started
One of the places that my husband, mother-in-law, and I visited in California in June
I’ve written before about the decadent Nadine Spanner chocolate cake. But when my husband and
The Kansas City Star has a column called “Snarky in the Suburbs” by Sherry Kuehl,
I went to Middlebury College expecting to become a Political Science major. I had law
As I enter my third year of blogging (my first post was on January 17,
I’ve posted pictures of my mother as a child (see here and here) and others
My husband and I now live in a retirement community. Our apartment has a full