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July 1851: A Month That Changed the Denny Party’s Future
By late July 1851, the Denny Party had been on the Oregon Trail for more
July 22, 2026
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By late July 1851, the Denny Party had been on the Oregon Trail for more
It’s been a couple of months since I wrote about my work-in-progress. The good news
Last Saturday was our nation’s 250th birthday. Along with many other people, I’ve been thinking
In junior high and high school, my favorite poem was “Renascence,” by Edna St. Vincent
April 10 is National Siblings Day. Although I have written many posts about siblings—my siblings,
It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers cannot spend all their time writing. Sometimes,
From the start of the month through Sunday, November 15, I wrote over 57,000 words
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There is nothing connecting the two topics of this post—Pi Day and deliberately bad acting—except
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I don’t know that I will get to the ocean this year, but my husband
I’m preparing to give a presentation for The Story Center, which is part of the
Perhaps I should have saved this topic for mid-July—thirty-six years after it happened. But since
Please forgive me for posting another Christmas snapshot, even though we are now in a
The house we moved into when I was six and a half, in October 1962,
This year one of the many things I am grateful for is the readers of
My husband sold his boat earlier this year, and I discovered that three boxes of
One of the fun experiences I had during my years at Middlebury College was making
I deliberately try to keep this blog apolitical. Yet, the theme of this blog is
I have written several times about my grandfather’s clock. I have had it in my
Every year Christmas sneaks up on me. It shouldn’t, I know. It’s always on December