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July 1851: A Month That Changed the Denny Party’s Future
By late July 1851, the Denny Party had been on the Oregon Trail for more
July 22, 2026
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By late July 1851, the Denny Party had been on the Oregon Trail for more
It’s been a couple of months since I wrote about my work-in-progress. The good news
Last Saturday was our nation’s 250th birthday. Along with many other people, I’ve been thinking
The fictional family in my work-in-progress lives in a large house in Portland, Oregon. They
The United States just celebrated its 245th birthday on Sunday, July 4, 2021. In recognition
I am in the thick of writing my current work-in-progress, approaching the halfway mark. I
I only spent one Christmas at my maternal grandparents’ home in Pacific Grove, California. That
I never knew my great-grandmother Cecelia Ryan Strachan, my maternal grandmother’s mother. In fact, Cecelia
I wasn’t able to go to the Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc. (OWFI) writing conference earlier
I wrote last week about the autumn of 1961, when I spent three weeks in
This month is the 152nd anniversary of the trial of Susan B. Anthony for voting
My brother and children seem to think they get treated unfairly in this blog, so
Perhaps I should have saved this topic for mid-July—thirty-six years after it happened. But since
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This week I have a guest post on Write Brain Trust that discusses how I formatted
One of the Easter vacations my family took when my kids were young was a
In going through the mementos my parents kept, I’ve discovered another way in which my
My mother’s birthday would have been later this week, and so I’ve been thinking a
On Monday, I wrote about the Oregon Trail emigrants choosing their leaders on the Kansas
It was 34 years ago this week that my husband and I arrived in Kansas
I do not like to exercise. I recognize the necessity, but I just don’t enjoy