
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)

During the earlier years of this blog, in a nod to Halloween celebrations, my October
I’ve learned most of my history through historical fiction. Not all, but most of it.

Last year in November I posted about my progress on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month),
By mid-June, the emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1840s had trekked 650 miles
I wrote a few months ago that I started taking piano lessons again, after a
I only remember my father swearing at me once. I heard him curse in general
I’ve written before about rail development in Oregon and the fierce competition between the East
Earlier this month I sent the first of what I hope will be regular newsletters

Now that my daughter is in her mid-thirties, I thought we had passed all the

Today is Christmas Eve, and experience tells me that not many people will read my
I’m preparing to give a presentation for The Story Center, which is part of the
Today, February 12, would have been my paternal grandmother’s 108th birthday. She died in 1990
Once again, during the holidays I noticed that my children are now adults, no longer
After helping me clean out my parents’ house after my father died, my husband got
This Saturday, March 4, 2017, marks the 40th anniversary of the first date my husband
I’m hard at work editing my next historical novel, titled Forever Mine: Love Along the

I am surprised that in five years of writing this blog I have never written
Before my maternal grandfather, a taciturn businessman from Oregon, married my grandmother, he allegedly told

As I mentioned in my last post, my granddaughter just passed her first birthday. My