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Our Christmas today will differ from how my husband and I have celebrated in years
December 25, 2024
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Our Christmas today will differ from how my husband and I have celebrated in years
For most of our marriage, my husband and I have traveled to one or the
For most of the forty-seven Christmases my husband and I have been married, we have
I wrote last week about the autumn of 1961, when I spent three weeks in
M.K. Tod offered me another opportunity last week to have a guest post on her
Fifteen years ago, in July 1998, our family took a hiking vacation in Switzerland. We
Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, two hundred years ago tomorrow. I first encountered
Most of my historical posts this year have been about the Oregon Trail, because I’m
This isn’t a typical Halloween post, but it is about hallowed ground. The original meaning
I’ve probably been to drive-in movies less than ten times in my entire life. But
Over the past many months, one thing I have not written about was my soon-to-be
I’ve written before about how much I love the beach. Usually, my visits to the
I first became aware of gender differences when I was about six or seven. I
The reason most settlers went to Oregon was because they could claim free land. In my
When I first saw the scene in the movie Home Alone where poor little Kevin
Under traditional English and American property law, married women had no rights to own property—real
When my brother and I visited our grandparents in Pacific Grove, California, they always took
I was thinking recently about my great-grandmothers. It dawned on me that they all probably
Today is Christmas Eve, and experience tells me that not many people will read my
I wrote an earlier post listing many of the things I included in my daughter’s
I wrote in my last post about one of my book clubs, the one I