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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 seem to be going to more funerals these days. Not only is the generation
Tomorrow would have been my father’s 86th birthday, so I have been thinking about him.
I’m preparing to give a presentation for The Story Center, which is part of the
Gratitude journals are a tool used in many disciplines. Psychologists prescribe them to combat depression.
My current work-in-progress is set during the Civil War in Oregon. The Civil War was
I don’t usually write about science, because I don’t know much about it. I haven’t
In the fall of 1972, a few months after I got my driver’s license, my
Now that I’m a grandmother, I find myself thinking of my mother more frequently. Though
My granddaughter just turned two. Her parents and my husband and I planned a pizza
Equipment is supposed to work perfectly, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter what kind of equipment—computers,
As I enter my third year of blogging (my first post was on January 17,
I don’t know that I will get to the ocean this year, but my husband
My grandmother’s red-lacquered nails clicked lightly on the keys as she played the piano. She
Kansas City got hit with a snowstorm last Friday and Saturday. Friday morning I had
The importance of rail development in the West is one of the plot lines in
This past weekend I traveled through southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas, visiting places of historical
Earlier this week, I went to a yoga class for the first time in a
I always assumed I would walk down the aisle at my wedding to the strains