My current work-in-progress is another historical novel set along the Oregon Trail, this one in
Spring is supposed to be the season when the weather turns milder—when the frigid temperatures
Last week I wrote about marching forth, and today I’m writing about springing forward. Daylight
In junior high and high school, my favorite poem was “Renascence,” by Edna St. Vincent
My husband and I traveled for twelve days in July aboard the Celebrity Eclipse on
I follow This Day in History, watching for events that relate to my historical novels.
Yesterday my son married his long-time girlfriend in a small and lovely ceremony in New
To my surprise, this is my 400th post, which seems worthy of mention. I last
In the fifteen months since my mother’s death, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering
I launched my blog “Story & History: One writer’s journey through life and time” in
I only remember my father swearing at me once. I heard him curse in general
During the earlier years of this blog, in a nod to Halloween celebrations, my October
I mentioned in a post a few years back that I saw the Mary Poppins
Today is Christmas Eve, and experience tells me that not many people will read my
In my family growing up, the tradition was to take down the Christmas tree before
My youngest sibling is eleven-and-a-half years younger than me, and he was not yet six
A year ago I published Lead Me Home, and I immediately turned to editing its
As I mentioned in my August 15 post last year, by mid-August the wagon trains
Recently, a relative sent my husband a picture of his high school graduation day. I’d
’Tis the season for putting up Christmas trees. My husband and I have not yet
A few days ago the topic of September 11 came up during a conversation with