
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Today is the 210th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born

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
Friday evening has always been the time I saved for my own enjoyment. All through
Here is a guest post from Pamela Boles Eglinski, author of the new novel Return of
Today, April 25, 2018, would have been my father’s 85th birthday. (He was 52 days
“Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!” ―from
Occasionally on this blog, I have posted some of my favorite recipes. Readers will intuit

I never knew my great-grandmother Cecelia Ryan Strachan, my maternal grandmother’s mother. In fact, Cecelia
I’ve written before about the Great Migration of 1843—the first large wagon train along the
I rarely entered science fairs as a student, but when I was in the seventh
My husband’s maternal grandmother put tags and notes on many of her possessions, stating who
In an earlier post, I mentioned my maternal grandmother’s thimble. Her initials – WS, for

In 2023, I had two primary writing goals—to publish When Heart Shall Fail (preferably in

Through Sunday, November 22, my total word count is 77,400 words. The NaNoWriMo pace for
Today is a first Wednesday, which means that at 11:00am, sirens will blare. At least
The reason most settlers went to Oregon was because they could claim free land. In my
While browsing in my local library recently, I saw the book, The Tao of Writing,
Not long ago, my husband and I decided we needed a break in our routine,
I wish I knew more about plotting a novel. It’s one of the reasons I
We don’t know what will suddenly bring a dormant memory to consciousness. For Proust, it