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July 1851: A Month That Changed the Denny Party’s Future
By late July 1851, the Denny Party had been on the Oregon Trail for more
July 22, 2026
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By late July 1851, the Denny Party had been on the Oregon Trail for more
It’s been a couple of months since I wrote about my work-in-progress. The good news
Last Saturday was our nation’s 250th birthday. Along with many other people, I’ve been thinking
This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
National Siblings Day was a few days ago on April 10. I looked for a
The house we moved into when I was six and a half, in October 1962,
I’ve never been a bird watcher. I don’t really care about counting the number of
After 45 years in Missouri, I left many friends behind when my husband and I
My brother and children seem to think they get treated unfairly in this blog, so
On Father’s Day, of course, I think of my father. And in the summertime, I
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
My mother collected silver souvenir spoons from foreign countries. Some showed national symbols and some
I only recall one summer driving trip in my childhood to California. We made a
I had to make some hard decisions when we moved last fall. I had several
The spiders are back already. After a mild winter and a hot spring and start
I am writing this post just a few hours after I dropped my daughter and
I don’t remember ever going on an Easter egg hunt as a child. The Easter
I left Kansas City in mid-March for a two-week trip to Washington State. It was
My current work-in-progress has a murder in it. I won’t say any more than that
The other evening my husband pulled an old throw out of the closet and settled
In past years, each October I have used this blog to review books that I’ve