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Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Today is the 210th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born
November 12, 2025
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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
Yesterday my son married his long-time girlfriend in a small and lovely ceremony in New
In January 1943, the U.S. Army selected the town of Hanford, Washington, as the site
As I announced on June 1 to readers of my monthly newsletter (fill out the
I described my son’s tantrum in my last post, so it’s only fair that in
I don’t remember ever going on an Easter egg hunt as a child. The Easter
One of my challenges in writing about the 19th century has been trying to determine
It seems appropriate that on this Labor Day I am updating you on my most
I’ve written before about the family hike we took in Switzerland in 1998 when my
As a writer of historical fiction, one of the issues I struggle with is how
My husband sold his boat earlier this year, and I discovered that three boxes of
For our 25th wedding anniversary in 2002, my husband and I went to Aruba. First,
When I attended Middlebury College in the mid-1970s, the school had a long weekend without
One of the things I love about winter is peppermint ice cream. I’m not a
On a chair in my guest room sit two handmade pillows with cats on them.
I’ve been asked to participate in an Author’s Blog Chain this week, which gives me
In February 2018, when I began writing my current novel, I speculated about what historical
A couple of months ago, I thumbed through the recipe box my mother gave me
The great-grandmother I know the least about is my father’s maternal grandmother, Della Phillips Jones.