
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Today is the 210th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born

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)

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One of the issues I have dealt with in my novel about the California Gold
One morning earlier this month I read Emily Parnell’s column in The Kansas City Star,

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Many years ago, my department at work took the Gallup StrengthsFinder survey to find out
Part of my horoscope on my birthday this year read “Develop a way of handling

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Most of my photos are now packed away in boxes and would be difficult to
Once the emigrants to Oregon survived the plains and the Rockies, they still had to
I’ve mentioned before that I called my maternal grandmother Nanny Winnie. How I came to
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A month or two ago I was working on the cover for my novel about
One of the things I love about winter is peppermint ice cream. I’m not a

I wrote an earlier post about my son’s birth. I put his first baby picture
I’ve written before about the idyllic summers I spent as a teenager on Coeur d’Alene
After I published Now I’m Found in late September 2016, I found myself at loose
It dawned on me recently that my son graduated from high school fifteen years ago
Heidi Cohen writes a good blog offering Practical Marketing Advice. Her February 13 post, 13
I wrote recently about my daughter’s 8th-grade graduation in 1999. After I wrote that post,