
Setting Up Another New Laptop
A couple of months ago, I noticed that the laptop I bought in 2021 was
A couple of months ago, I noticed that the laptop I bought in 2021 was
I’ve mentioned before that I spent two of my birthdays at Cannon Beach, Oregon—my 12th
On New Year’s Day, I posted that my resolution for 2025 was to vote “present”
This blog was on hiatus for a little longer than I expected. Followers of my
Today I am delighted to announce that I am participating in a holiday giveaway with
The reason most settlers went to Oregon was because they could claim free land. In my
By the middle of July, the Oregon emigrants in the 1840s hoped to have crossed
I’m writing another book about the emigrants to Oregon in 1847 who traveled in the
Throughout 1848, fortune-seekers streamed into California, even though the U.S. government had not yet acknowledged
I’ve written other posts this year about jewelry I received from my maternal grandmother—earrings she
I wrote last week about the recent vacation my husband and I took to the
I wrote two years ago about going to see Santa Claus at Lloyd Center in
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
We celebrated the major holidays in our family—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, but we didn’t celebrate
I wrote at the beginning of the month that I hadn’t read many haunting books
A friend recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon. “The ranger told us
A year ago I was suffering from the worst stomach flu I’d had in a
Tomorrow would have been my father’s 86th birthday, so I have been thinking about him.
Although many posts on this blog are about my life, I don’t aspire to write
October is National Family History Month—a month for those with an interest in genealogy to
Last year I posted several times about travel along the Oregon Trail in 1847, the