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From Snail Mail to Book: My Dad’s Story Unveiled
I can’t remember a time when my dad wasn’t my hero. Like most kids, I thought my home and family were just normal. I had a mom, a dad, siblings, a house, pets, neighbors, and church. Didn’t everyone live like that? As I grew, I came to understand that I was fortunate because I had… Read more
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Introducing My New Pen Name and Writing Progress
The Second Wife’s Story is coming together, but I had to quit working on it for a couple of months. I’m now two months now, but I’m back on track and working on a second biography as well. There’s so much to tell, and I’m so excited to share my progress with you! Many of… Read more
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Epiphany Part II
About that Industrial Revolution . . . A few months ago, I began researching and preparing to re-open Stories from The Past with a fully fleshed out version of The Second Wife’s Story written written as a series of posts to be prepared for publication by 2027. As I neared the end of 2025, and… Read more
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Epiphany
It came to me in early June, just after we bought our beautiful new-to-us home: How to start Mary Davis’s biography. We’d been packing, unpacking, cleaning, and everything else that goes with grandparenting, moving, and dealing with a chronic disability. It had been staring me in the face for years, but I couldn’t see it.… Read more
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A lotta changes goin’ on ’round here (a quick newsletter for 2026)
This website is really old, and never has reached its full potential; it’s in desperate need of updating. Read more
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Thirty-six Minus Twenty-two Equals Fourteen
Why can’t he just say Marianne, will you marry me? I would say yes. Read more
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