
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 spent the first thirty years of my life trying not to be like my
I’ve written many times about Pacific Grove and Carmel, California, and other venues on the
Later this year my husband and I will celebrate our 35th anniversary. We started dating,
I recently returned from another visit to see family on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s a
My kids and their cousins often visited their mutual grandparents (my in-laws) when they were
Now that autumn is officially here, it’s time for apple recipes. I’m very particular about
Each October I’ve devoted one or more posts to the “haunting books” I’ve read during

I’ve mentioned NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) before—the national endeavor by authors around the world
This is another post about lakes. Throughout my life I have vacationed on many lakes,
I’ve learned most of my history through historical fiction. Not all, but most of it.
I’ve written several posts about the cruise (see here, here, and here) we took this

I never knew my great-grandmother Cecelia Ryan Strachan, my maternal grandmother’s mother. In fact, Cecelia
As I wrote recently, I’ve had weddings on my mind. Here’s another post on the

I am starting the New Year with a new resolve to finish my novel. I
I’ve written before about my dentophobia. Unfortunately, I’ve had more dental problems recently. My upper
In an earlier post, I mentioned situations where I was confronted by the fact that
For the Fourth of July when I was seven, someone gave my brother (who was
Although I have a lot of editing to do on my current work-in-progress (the sixth