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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
There’s an old nursery rhyme that attributes character traits (or fortunes—the interpretation varies) to children
I have hit the tenth anniversary of this blog. My first post was on January
After I published Now I’m Found in late September 2016, I found myself at loose
One scent that brings my childhood to mind is that of Vicks VapoRub. When I
One thing that surprises me as I research the settlement of the American West is
I wrote a couple of months ago about how the Manhattan Project preserved the natural
The silver lining in the pandemic crisis is that I have been writing diligently on
In my novels, starting with Now I’m Found, which was set in 1848-50, I show
I don’t know how I became the pumpkin carver in our family. My husband and
Do you remember the ridiculous children’s song “Little Bunny Foo Foo”? I’m certain I never
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
My husband and I are starting to think about what to hang on the walls
Kansas City got hit with a snowstorm last Friday and Saturday. Friday morning I had
I’ve always been amazed by this photograph of the gifts I received on my first
Before my father passed away on January 5, I had scheduled some posts on my
I wrote last year about attending the writing conference at Johnson County Library. I was
I’ve written many times about photographs taken from my childhood or from my children’s childhood.
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