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I started blogging in January 2012, and other than a few brief hiatuses, I haven’t
November 19, 2025
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I started blogging in January 2012, and other than a few brief hiatuses, I haven’t
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)
I wrote recently about setting up my new laptop. One of the first things I
I wrote at the beginning of the month that I hadn’t read many haunting books
Here is a guest post from Pamela Boles Eglinski, author of the new novel Return of
In this post I reveal my curmudgeonly nature. Today, August 26, is Dog Day. I
Building a new house has taught me all sorts of esoteric terms. Our online construction
Every once in a while I come across a book that intimidates me. Sometimes, it’s
One of the earliest books that I remember my mother reading to me was The
A couple of weeks ago a friend told me about her family’s experience setting up
In the summer of 2001, a few months before September 11, my daughter and I
As I research my next historical novel set in 19th Century Oregon, one issue I
As readers of this blog know, I am a proud alumna of Middlebury College, Class
I don’t want March to get away from me before I write about two milestones
My mother collected silver souvenir spoons from foreign countries. Some showed national symbols and some
I’m always curious about the reasons other historical fiction writers are drawn to the genre.
There is nothing connecting the two topics of this post—Pi Day and deliberately bad acting—except
When I first began writing, I read lots of books on writing—many on the techniques
My granddaughter just turned two. Her parents and my husband and I planned a pizza
If the emigrants on the Oregon Trail were fortunate, they reached Oregon City in the