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Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Today is the 210th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born
November 12, 2025
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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
In December 2017, a writer friend of mine asked me what my 2018 goals were.
I’ve posted about other haunting books set during wartime (see here and here). The Book
My family is an eclectic mix of Catholics, Protestants, agnostics, and skeptics. Most of the
It seems that in over five years of writing this blog, I have never written
This page contains all the posts from my WordPress.com blog, Story & History: One writer’s
As I’ve delved deeper into closets and drawers and boxes, I’ve found all sorts of
As I reported to readers of my newsletter last week, I completed the rough draft
I’ve started decorating for Christmas, which is the only season for which I do much
I first became aware of gender differences when I was about six or seven. I
Not everyone will be haunted by The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin, but I was. I
I’ve written before about rail development in Oregon and the fierce competition between the East
This past week, while I’ve been caring for my daughter with a broken leg, I’ve
Each year, my kids were in Christmas programs at their school. The programs were held
The sequel to Lead Me Home takes place during the California Gold Rush and the
After helping me clean out my parents’ house after my father died, my husband got
My last post was a story I couldn’t tell until after my parents were gone—about
I have been to all but three states in the U.S. I still need to
In the past few months I’ve read several books that have continued to haunt me