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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.
As I’ve written before, any year is a good year when I get to walk
I thought about only including historical fiction in my “haunting books” this year, but a
I’ve been reading Janet Burroway’s book, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. I started
As I mentioned in a recent post, the river cruise my husband and I were
The last survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake died earlier this month. William Del
I’ve written before about the odd things that can trigger memory. I had another such experience
Under traditional English and American property law, married women had no rights to own property—real
My niece, a second-grader in a Seattle suburb, assigned me homework. She wanted me to
The Catholic Lenten obligations prohibit eating meat on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays during Lent
My husband and I didn’t take too many summer vacations at my parents’ home when
The Great Migration of 1843 was the first significant group of emigrants to head west.
In the past few months I’ve read several books that have continued to haunt me
A friend recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon. “The ranger told us
My husband and I traveled for twelve days in July aboard the Celebrity Eclipse on
I wrote in January 2019 about my hesitation over my husband’s Christmas gift to me
One of the problems I’ve had to deal with in my soon-to-be-published novel, Now I’m
Not everyone will be haunted by The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin, but I was. I