
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
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed, is the
My story, My Son Made Me Tweet, will appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul:
One of the places that my husband, mother-in-law, and I visited in California in June
This year one of the many things I am grateful for is the readers of
The news reports recently have contained stories about the 2020 U.S. Census not reaching everyone.
The novel I’m writing now takes place in 1864 Oregon. The Civil War was the

I’ve written several times before about setting up new computers and other digital devices. (See
The reason most settlers went to Oregon was because they could claim free land. In my
In 1971, when I was fifteen, I went on a People to People High School

Since moving to Seattle, I’ve been researching some of the early pioneers who settled in
I am writing this post just a few hours after I dropped my daughter and
I had another novel in mind for my last haunting book review this month, but
I mentioned in a recent post that I’m a part of Read Local Kansas City.
As I reviewed old posts, I realized I haven’t written much about Memorial Day. That’s
As I research my historical novels, I often refer to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s History of

Every once in a while I come across a book that intimidates me. Sometimes, it’s
September 21 is World Gratitude Day, a day celebrated since 1966 when an international group
As I mentioned in my August 15 post last year, by mid-August the wagon trains