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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
I happened upon an exhibit of Fred Geary’s woodcuts at the Kansas City Public Library’s
In the summer of 1989, when our daughter was four and our son seven, we
Christmas 1978 was the first Christmas I spent away from my parents’ home. My husband
One of the places that my husband, mother-in-law, and I visited in California in June
A new novel raising Thomas Jefferson’s slave mistress to “Founding Mother” is now a Kindle
In recognition of Women’s History Month, this post is about the beginning of the women’s
It boggled my mind when I realized last week ago that this is the third
A lot goes on in our family in May. Our daughter’s birthday. Mother’s Day. And,
While browsing in my local library recently, I saw the book, The Tao of Writing,
Today I am hosting Christi Corbett, author of the new novel, Along the Way Home,
Longtime readers of this blog know that it started as a WordPress.com blog called “Story
I’ve written before about the wonderful libraries in the Kansas City area, including the Kansas
When I retired several years ago, I told myself I wouldn’t sit around doing crossword
If you want to have an impact on people, you need to tell them a
When autumn came to 1848, San Francisco was already a boom town and coping with
This blog is about story and history — my story, the stories in my historical
In the modern world, we are dependent on logistics and supply chains that most people
ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) programs are the subject of many media articles and