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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 wrote in my last post about my son’s first experience at summer camp. When
Perhaps it seems odd that I just announced the publication of my last novel, My
A few months ago, I installed several Amazon Alexa devices to make our home “smart”.
I envied my children as they were growing up—they were close with two of their
I wrote an earlier post about my son’s birth. I put his first baby picture
Although many posts on this blog are about my life, I don’t aspire to write
There’s been a lot in the news in recent years about infrastructure. Which projects are
My husband and I will celebrate our thirty-ninth wedding anniversary soon. We were married just
When I was cleaning out my parents’ house last spring, I found an old doll.
I wrote last week about National Library Week, and I announced that the Mid-Continent Public
I’m not good at remembering summer birthdays. Maybe it’s because there’s too much else to
The sequel to Lead Me Home takes place during the California Gold Rush and the
Authors continue to research aspects of their plots throughout the drafting and revising of their
Several months ago I was cleaning out a drawer that should have been cleaned out
As I mentioned in my August 15 post last year, by mid-August the wagon trains
Heidi Cohen writes a good blog offering Practical Marketing Advice. Her February 13 post, 13
Our new home is still not much more than a hole in the ground. The
My last review of a haunting book for 2016 is of The Summer Before the War,