
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
This week’s haunting book is a novel about a privileged Englishwoman, Ursula Todd, born in

Perhaps it seems odd that I just announced the publication of my last novel, My

On the fourth Wednesday of the month, I usually write a post with a historical

I wrote five years ago about my first day of work for Hallmark Cards on
On Mother’s Day, when he was eleven or twelve, my son gave me a pair
The first President I could name was John F. Kennedy. President Eisenhower was in office
In a couple of days, my husband will celebrate a milestone birthday. One that ends

It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers cannot spend all their time writing. Sometimes,

Since moving to Seattle, I’ve been researching some of the early pioneers who settled in
I recently started using Scrivener, a software program designed for writers. I’ve used WriteWay Pro off
I’ve written before that my ancestor, Cyrenus Hooker, was the first person murdered in Polk

In this phase of my life, I sometimes find that I am a bag lady.
There’s been a lot in the news in recent years about infrastructure. Which projects are
I try to keep the language I use in my historical novels true to the
I mentioned in an earlier post that I wrestled with whether to set my Oregon
I’ve known since I began writing this blog that there were stories I couldn’t (or
The Coca-Cola Company has an advertising campaign underway using the slogan “Share a Coke with