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Today is the 175th anniversary of the Singer sewing machine. On August 12, 1851, American
August 12, 2026
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Today is the 175th anniversary of the Singer sewing machine. On August 12, 1851, American
Back in November 2022, I wrote about ending each journal entry by listing five (more
When I wrote last about my cataract surgery, I described how strange it was to
When our youngest sibling (a boy) was born, my ten-year-old brother announced in awe, “When
I’ve known since I began writing this blog that there were stories I couldn’t (or
At Mass last Sunday, the second reading was from 1 John, and included 1 John
I wrote recently about my son’s bout with chickenpox in January 1986. Well, as I
The Great Migration of 1843 was the first significant group of emigrants to head west.
Oregon City, now a suburb of Portland, Oregon, was one of the largest settlements in
I saw a post recently titled “The Timeless Writing Struggle: Ego vs. Humility” by Karen
On a spur-of-the-moment Fourth of July visit, my son appointed himself my assignments editor for
This Saturday, March 4, 2017, marks the 40th anniversary of the first date my husband
A few years after we moved to Kansas City, my husband bought a sailing canoe.
I have been blogging regularly since early 2012. In over six years, I think I
I’ve written before about the idyllic summers I spent as a teenager on Coeur d’Alene
Part of my horoscope on my birthday this year read “Develop a way of handling
On my page for writers, I mention Write Brain Trust, a group of Kansas City
My kids were born several years before the chickenpox vaccine was available. The measles/mumps/rubella vaccine
A friend I’ve come to know from blogging, Jill Weatherholt, asked me to be a guest
I learned in grade school that the state flower of Washington State is the rhododendron.
I’ve written before about viewing exhibits at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.