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Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Today is the 210th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born
November 12, 2025
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Today is the 210th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born
I learned recently that the first Wednesday of November (which is today, November 5, 2025)
During the earlier years of this blog, in a nod to Halloween celebrations, my October
In my gratitude list, I mentioned the support of colleagues and mentors as something I
Many thanks to those of you who have written comments on my earlier posts or
Before we moved into our current home in 2019, I did a lot of cleaning
In response to my last email newsletter, one reader wrote me about how her family
Emigrants to Oregon in the 1840s knew that if they reached Independence Rock (located in
Now that autumn is officially here, it’s time for apple recipes. I’m very particular about
Every so often, something happens in real life that makes a good story. There is
I had to make some hard decisions when we moved last fall. I had several
In our house, we use EVERYTHING. Including chicken and turkey carcasses. When we get a
An article in The Wall Street Journal on May 10, 2014, by Michael M. Phillips,
I went to Middlebury College expecting to become a Political Science major. I had law
Unlike me, my father liked to cook. In fact, he paid part of his way
By mid-August the emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1840s had passed Fort Hall.
“Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!” ―from
I mentioned in an earlier post that the employee cafeteria at Hallmark Cards where I
The last time I wrote about my current work-in-progress was in mid-March. At that point,
I deliberately keep this blog away from politics. I’m told that writing about a hot-button
Here is a scene from Chapter 44 of my novel Now I’m Found, describing a