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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
Tomorrow, March 8, is International Women’s Day. I was with a group of women fiction
The Catholic Lenten obligations prohibit eating meat on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays during Lent
Today is my sister’s birthday. Regular readers of this blog can figure out which one,
The Willamette Valley is wet. That’s what I remember most about the winters when we
I wrote a poem several years back about my mother’s hands. Here it is: Heredity
My husband and I didn’t take too many summer vacations at my parents’ home when
Because the emigrants in my first Oregon Trail novel traveled between April and October, I
After the Cannon Beach portion of my recent trip west, my husband and I spent
Long before the lemon juice incident or the orange juice incident came the grape juice
Many of the scenes in my current work-in-progress take place in a Methodist parsonage in
Shortly before my mother’s death, my father and I reviewed the draft obituaries my parents
My daughter and granddaughter visited us again over Memorial Day weekend. The baby is now
Those of you who have read my story “Competitive Yoga” in Chicken Soup for the
One of the places that my husband, mother-in-law, and I visited in California in June
By the middle of July, the Oregon emigrants in the 1840s hoped to have crossed
I wrote last year about attending the virtual conference sponsored by the Historical Novel Society
I’ve written before about my grandfather’s clock—how it formed a part of my childhood, first
I wrote in January 2013 about having to replace two computers and an e-reader within a