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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
I wrote last week about National Library Week, and I announced that the Mid-Continent Public
September 7, 1973, was my brother’s sixteenth birthday, so yesterday he turned sixty-four. I left
My youngest sibling is eleven-and-a-half years younger than me, and he was not yet six
I have written several times about my grandfather’s clock. I have had it in my
July 24 is Amelia Earhart Day. The news recently has been full of speculation about
We are ahead of pace on snowfall for the season, and the average low temperature
In this phase of my life, I sometimes find that I am a bag lady.
In my about-to-be-published novel, My Hope Secured, several scenes take place in or around the
Longtime readers of this blog know that it started as a WordPress.com blog called “Story
My last post was a story I couldn’t tell until after my parents were gone—about
I’ve written before about the idyllic summers I spent during my teenage years on Coeur
I wrote five years ago about my first day of work for Hallmark Cards on
For those of you who want an update on my writing about the Oregon Trail,
A few weeks ago, my family started hospice care for my mother. She had been
Last Friday, March 24, I was a guest on Wayne Turmel’s blog. He introduced his
My daughter has always been a focused individual. I’ve described before her intense effort at
One of the places that my husband, mother-in-law, and I visited in California in June
In past years, each October I have used this blog to review books that I’ve