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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 predicted in January of this year, on the tenth anniversary of this blog, that
Earlier this month I had a day by myself in Topeka, which is just over
Most of my historical posts this year have been about the Oregon Trail, because I’m
I’ve posted pictures of my mother as a child (see here and here) and others
This is my week for blog chains. Monday I followed a tag by Juliet Kincaid,
My husband’s maternal grandmother put tags and notes on many of her possessions, stating who
I wrote a few months ago that I started taking piano lessons again, after a
I posted a couple of weeks ago about the error the U.S. Postal Service made
In February 2018, when I began writing my current novel, I speculated about what historical
I wrote last summer about my son’s first overnight camp experience, at the YMCA’s Camp
I wrote last year about attending the virtual conference sponsored by the Historical Novel Society
It is peach season in Missouri. If it is peach season, it is time for
From the start of the month through Sunday, November 15, I wrote over 57,000 words
The Lake House was another book I read this past year that played with my
My husband and I closed on the sale of our house in Kansas City recently.
One of the things I found as I went through my parents’ memorabilia recently was
I’ve written before about how social media has helped me reconnect with relatives and friends. Well,
It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers cannot spend all their time writing. Sometimes,