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What Twenty-One Years Have Changed
Twenty-one years ago, in August 2005, my family gathered to celebrate my parents’ 50th wedding
August 19, 2026
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Twenty-one years ago, in August 2005, my family gathered to celebrate my parents’ 50th wedding
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
I wrote today’s post before the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday.
I recently returned from another visit to see family on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s a
As a child, I spent a lot of time with my maternal grandmother, my Nanny
I recently learned that my two most recent novels, When Heart Shall Fail and A
By the beginning of June 1848 there were around 2,000 miners in the Sierra Nevada
I wrote a post last year about the difficulties of mail service during the California
I’ve lived at both ends of the Oregon Trail. I grew up in eastern Washington
When I first saw the scene in the movie Home Alone where poor little Kevin
My husband and I visited the Peace Arch on the border between the United States
J.G. Burdette, who blogs at Map of Time: A Trip into the Past, tagged me
I’ve written many times about Pacific Grove and Carmel, California, and other venues on the
I’ve written before about my dislike of beauty parlors, which dates back to early childhood.
One of the downsides of listing our house for sale has been the need to
Yesterday I got my car washed. Mind you, many people in Seattle never get their
When I was growing up, my mother regularly made pot roast because my father (a
In the fifteen months since my mother’s death, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering
I just spent nearly three weeks caring for my daughter who broke her leg skiing. She
National Siblings Day was a few days ago on April 10. I looked for a