
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
The time has come again for me to focus on technology. It seems every three
Last year I recounted the story of James Marshall finding a gold nugget at Sutter’s
I reported earlier in the month that my husband gave me an Instant Pot for
For the Fourth of July when I was seven, someone gave my brother (who was
My husband and I hadn’t spent a night outside Kansas City since our trip to
My husband and I recently began having cell phone problems. My phone was almost three
Because the emigrants in my first Oregon Trail novel traveled between April and October, I
One of the things I found in going through my father’s papers was some genealogies
A few weeks ago my husband decided to give away all his unused audio equipment
This coming Sunday, September 13, is Grandparents Day. I was searching for a topic involving
Every year on Halloween night, I remember Halloween night in 1963, when I was seven
It’s hard not to be haunted by any book about the Nazi death camps. Lilac
A friend of mine in Washington State recently posted a picture of huckleberries she had
My youngest brother is eleven and one-half years younger than I am. Given where our
In all the years we’ve been married, my husband and I have never spent Christmas
I mentioned in an earlier post that the employee cafeteria at Hallmark Cards where I
I left Kansas City in mid-March for a two-week trip to Washington State. It was
December 21 is Short Girl Appreciation Day. I am a short girl—5’1” in my stocking