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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
My husband and I spent Christmas by ourselves this year. Most of our 46 Christmases
Tomorrow, July 4, 2024, marks the tenth anniversary of my mother’s death. As I wrote
In all the years we’ve been married, my husband and I have never spent Christmas
My husband and I moved to a retirement community in Seattle a year ago this
As Christmas approaches every year, I worry about all the things to do — send
Last year I posted several times about travel along the Oregon Trail in 1847, the
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I’ve written before that I am a lot like my mother. But I developed my
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Perhaps I should have saved this topic for mid-July—thirty-six years after it happened. But since
I mentioned my pint-sized rocking chair in a recent post. I received the rocker for
Here is a scene from Chapter 44 of my novel Now I’m Found, describing a
Sometime during the summer between our first and second years of law school, my husband-to-be