The Faith of Generations and a tribute to my aunt
September 17, 2014In lieu of Writer Wednesday today, I’d like to talk to you about something more personal. This week my aunt, who was also my godmother,…
Category: Extras
WWI first spark 100 years ago today
June 28, 2014How The Economist reported Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, that sparked WWI, 100 years ago…
Top Ten Tuesday- Literary Friends
May 20, 2014Image from The Broke and the Bookish Today, I’m participating in “Top Ten Tuesday”, listing ten of my top friendship books. There are several important…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
March 6, 2014Today is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s birthday and in honor of that, I’d like to share her Sonnet 43, which is perhaps her best known poem….
Happy 4th of July!
July 4, 2013Words hold the power to alter history. Perhaps, this is no better remembered than on this day- the 4th of July. The unanimous Declaration of…
Walking through the pages of History- Maginot Line
June 13, 2013Sutter’s Mill, where gold was first discovered in California in 1848, is one of the first historic places I remember visiting as an eager elementary…
Bringing Color to History
June 11, 2013Historical Fiction infuses color into the black and white of the historic prologue. With historic events as the prologue to my stories, it is up…