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Several weeks ago, my older granddaughter announced to me, with grammatical precision if not ideal
February 4, 2026
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Several weeks ago, my older granddaughter announced to me, with grammatical precision if not ideal
Since I moved to Seattle, I’ve been reading about the city’s early history, when the
My husband was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him
When my husband and I were in our third year of law school, we had
Part of my horoscope on my birthday this year read “Develop a way of handling
On Monday, I wrote about the Oregon Trail emigrants choosing their leaders on the Kansas
My husband sold his boat earlier this year, and I discovered that three boxes of
It seems that in over five years of writing this blog, I have never written
We celebrated the major holidays in our family—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, but we didn’t celebrate
My youngest sibling was in kindergarten the year I started college. When I came home
I have finally published A Life of Joy, the seventh and last book in my
I am the latest of a long line of Catholic women who married Protestant men.
I could have titled this post “Tidying Up, Part 2.” But I decided on “Treasures
A new novel raising Thomas Jefferson’s slave mistress to “Founding Mother” is now a Kindle
I suppose every family develops its own lingo, terms they use to describe their experiences
As readers of this blog know, I have included Abigail Scott Duniway, a historical Oregon
Longtime readers of this blog know that it started as a WordPress.com blog called “Story
On December 30, 2020, I posted my primary writing goals for 2021: 1. Edit and
This isn’t a typical Halloween post, but it is about hallowed ground. The original meaning
It wasn’t until December 1848 that President James Polk acknowledged that gold had been found
I’ve started decorating for Christmas, which is the only season for which I do much