
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

I’ve read several articles and editorials in recent months about the demise of local newspapers.
In the summer of 2001, a few months before September 11, my daughter and I
As readers of this blog know, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, my

I’ve always been amazed by this photograph of the gifts I received on my first

Earlier this week, I went to a yoga class for the first time in a
Several months ago I was cleaning out a drawer that should have been cleaned out
I wrote last summer about my son’s first overnight camp experience, at the YMCA’s Camp
An article in The Wall Street Journal on May 10, 2014, by Michael M. Phillips,
In this post I reveal my curmudgeonly nature. Today, August 26, is Dog Day. I

For most of the forty-seven Christmases my husband and I have been married, we have

Even before I met my mother-in-law-to-be, I wrote her. It was shortly before Mother’s Day
I’ve lived at both ends of the Oregon Trail. I grew up in eastern Washington
As Black History Month (February) winds to an end, I decided to post a bit
Both my dad and my mother’s father took lots of pictures over the years. As

Our Christmas today will differ from how my husband and I have celebrated in years
Great pictures on Adventure Dates of Ash Hollow, Windlass Hill, and Courthouse and Jail Rocks
It’s been several years since I posted about how I sometimes procrastinate when I should