
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

Through Sunday, November 22, my total word count is 77,400 words. The NaNoWriMo pace for
I did not plan to write this week about losing my parents—that’s a subject I’ve

Rickover was the first dog my husband and I owned together. I’ve mentioned Rickover before

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Klondike Gold Rush National

I finished the draft of this new novel on Thanksgiving Day. Since then, I’ve been

My son, my first child, turns forty in a few days. It certainly does not

Over the past many months, one thing I have not written about was my soon-to-be
On December 30, 2020, I posted my primary writing goals for 2021: 1. Edit and

For most of the forty-seven Christmases my husband and I have been married, we have
On Saturday, March 2, 2019, other family members and I attended the Friends of Arrow
I wrote on July 15 about the Oregon emigrants’ experience sight-seeing at Ice Slough in
Ten years ago, in the summer of 2007, my daughter and I went to Copenhagen

I don’t remember ever going on an Easter egg hunt as a child. The Easter
As we begin the new year, I’ve been looking back at my life. From time

I launched my blog “Story & History: One writer’s journey through life and time” in
I wrote last week that I am not an outdoorsy person. Perhaps that’s because some
I’ve been asked to participate in an Author’s Blog Chain this week, which gives me
The reason most settlers went to Oregon was because they could claim free land. In my