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Blog post“I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.” —Jo in Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
What is the greatest luxury of a home?
Fine China?
Silk sheets?
A fabulous shoe collection?
The thing of most value of any house is the lock on the front door and the key to it. A lock and key provide security for all we hold dear within—including people and pets.
Early “locks” consisted of a board across the -
Blog postDo you think much about doors? What is a door? A door is many things…
...an entry
…an exit
…welcoming
…protection
…a transition point
…a portal
…a connection between two worlds
We couldn’t imagine our personal dwelling place without a door. From whence did they come?
The first known door dates back to 4,000-year-old Egyptian tomb paintings.
Early doors were made out of whatever was available locally, generally wo -
Blog postWay back before eating utensils were invented, everyone ate with their fingers. Unless a person had very dry food, mealtime was a messy endeavor. People needed a way to clean their hands without wiping them all over their clothes.
Enter bread dough.
Yep. The Spartans in Ancient Greece had the smart idea to dab their ten little digits on dough to remove the grease. They called this dough-napkin-thingy apomagdalie. Each person had a small ball of the soft goodness to -
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Blog postThe first utensil most of us ever used—after eating with our fingers—was likely the spoon, as well as the first eating tool created. Some cultures prefer forks while others favor chopsticks, but most all cultures use a spoon in some form.
The early spoons were likely a shell attached to a piece of wood, carved wood, or a curved section of an animal horn. Before the seventeenth century, ones spoon went with a person virtually everywhere much the same way people don’t leave home without -
Blog postHave you ever looked down at your plate and wondered from whence it came? This simple invention is one of the best. We have dinner plates, bread plates, butter plates, and dessert plates.
People didn’t always eat off of such vessels. So when did this practice start? What were they made of? What did the first plates look like?
The earliest plates were those made by nature; a large leaf, a shell, a hunk of wood, most anything which could hold food. These early plates were communal -
Blog postDURING MID-MONTH MADNESS!
IT’S A PARTY!!!!!
MID-MONTH MADNESS is a FB/blog author party I’m participating in—TODAY!
During WWII a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) embarks on an
unsanctioned mission to rescue three US soldiers held captive in Cuba. There will be two opportunities to win a paperback copy of MRS. WITHERSPOON GOES TO WAR as well as a chance to win my Prodigal Daughters series. The others authors taking part will be giving away some of t -
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Blog postMRS. WITHERSPOON GOES TO WAR releases today! I’m so excited!
Peggy is a strong female pilot with heart who takes the reader on an exciting adventure with giggles throughout.
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A WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) embarks on an unsanctioned mission to rescue three US soldiers held captive in Cuba. Margaret “Peggy” Witherspoon is a thirty-four-year-old widow, mother of two, flying for the WASP. When her new supervisor, Army Air Corps Major Howie Berg, gives her an order she c -
Blog postI research a lot of things I never imagined learning. Some times, it’s because I need that information for a story I’m writing. Other times, it’s because I stumble across something while researching something else.
I was writing along in the story I was currently working at the time and needed to know a tidbit of info. Back when I first started writing novels, research was hard and slow and heavy. Why heavy? Because I had to check out a ton of books from the library and sift throug -
Blog postWhat kid doesn’t like to eat with their fingers? Growing up, my stepdad felt it was bad manners to eat with one’s fingers. There are some things one can’t really eat with anything but their fingers. Crispy bacon—ever tried to eat that with a fork? I have (by force). It didn’t end well, but I proved my point. Grapes, pizza, an apple, a sandwich, french fries, and cotton candy are only a few of the foods best eaten with the ten little digits.
To get around the n -
Blog postIt’s time for me to set my 2022 goals. But first, how did I do on my 2021 goals? Overall, I’m pleased with the goals I met. Here is a quick recap.
~~ I will Finish Writing Mrs. Witherspoon Goes to War Novel.
I did finish writing it. It will be released in less than a month on February 1st. This is a historical romance WWII novel about a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots who goes on an unsanctioned rescue mission.
~~ I will Finish Writing Quilting Circ -
Blog postEach year I can’t wait for this time of year for many reasons. One of them is the stores have fresh cranberries to make one of my favorite treats. What are they, you ask?
Chocolate Covered Cranberries
Oh, my goodness! I can’t stop myself from shoving one after another into my mouth. I love the snap of the cranberry when I bite into it. Snap! Snap! Snap! The mix of the sweet with the tart is a wonderful combination.
As I was washing the cranberries this y -
Blog post...and the Passion of Lexicographers.
In elementary school, when I couldn’t spell a word (which happened a lot having an undiagnosed learning disability) I would ask the teacher for help. The answer I would always get was, “Look it up in the dictionary.” This would frustrate me to no end. If I could spell it, then I could look it up. But since I couldn’t spell it, I couldn’t look it up to figure out how to spell it so I could look it up. I would return to my desk defeated.
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Blog postVesuvius’s Other Victim I remember Sunday, May 18, 1980, the day Mount Saint Helens erupted. The winds were such that where I lived didn’t receive the downpour of ash like other areas immediately did. On the other side of the mountains, where my sister attended college, ash rained down. She called and asked how to get ash out of her church dress. So much collected in the college town that she could scoop it off her windowsill as a memory of this fateful day.
So why am I bringing -
Blog post🍁🍁🍁 FALL BOOK RELEASE PARTY! 🍁🍁🍁🥳 Come join the fun on Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
3:30-5:30 p.m. PST (6:30-8:30 p.m. EST)Grand Prize $35 Amazon gift card as well as other prizeshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/541277049330653🍁 My latest release 🧡 The Débutante’s Secret 🧡 (Quilting Circle 4) will be one of the featured books.The others are:🍁 Mabel Gets the Ax by Susan Kimmel Wright🍁 A Mug of Mayhem by Angela Ruth Strong🍁 Promise Me Aloha by Taylor BennettSee you there! -
Blog postIn Independence, Missouri sits a unique little museum dedicated to hair art but not fancy hairdos as one might think. The hair in Leila’s Hair Museum are strands from dearly departed loved ones made into art. Before the advent of photography, people liked to keep a little something of someone who had passed on. We have all seen this type of thing in movies where a small hank of hair is kept in a locket.
People of bygone eras took this to whole new levels by saving a loved -
Blog postMontgomery County Jail Building
In 1881, architect William H. Brown answered the human incarceration problem with an engineering solution by designed a revolutionary new jail concept in housing criminals. Brown teamed up with Benjamin F. Haugh. Haugh, Ketcham & Co. iron foundry in Indianapolis, Indiana build this modern masterpiece.
What was this work of genius, you may ask? A rotary jail.
Hmm… Sounds a bit odd. But whenever someone comes up with a new solut -
Blog postRandolph Caldecott (1846-1886),
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A few weeks ago as I headed out to the car, there was a big ol’ black bird. Was it a crow or a raven? Were they one and the same just different names? Like couch and sofa. Or soda and pop. So, I asked my hubby, “What’s the difference between a crow and a raven?”
He came back with a quick, snappy answer. “The spelling.”
Cracked me up.
My brain kept turning my question around -
Blog postIn York, England, architect Joseph A. Hansom designed the Hansom Safety Cab and patented it in 1834. The cab he created was a light, fast two-wheeled vehicle pulled by a single horse and designed to ferry one or two passengers—three if they squished together. It was also known as the two-wheeled “safety cab” because the low center of gravity made it less likely to tip over on tight turns anti was maneuverable through city traffic. The hansom cab replaced the larger four-wheeled hackney
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Blog postOne of my favorite scenes in the Anne of Green Gables miniseries produced in the 1980s was when Matthew (Anne’s male guardian) bought her a dress with puffed sleeves. Matthew comments on the puffed sleeves, and Anne says, “The puffiest in the world.” Oh, yeah. That’s what I’m talking about.
Puffed, gigot, and leg o’ mutton sleeves were all very voluminous and popular in the 1890s. The term “leg o’ mutton” comes from shape of a leg of lamb, bulbous at one end and narrow at the other lik -
Blog postBefore there was a town, the Kittitas Valley, where Ellensburg is located, was important to the native tribes who gathered in the area to harvest camas roots and sweet onions, to graze and race their horses, settle disputes, forge family ties, feast, and play games.
In July 1848, Father Pandosy established the first non-native home in the Ellensburg area. It was a small structure to house a mission called Immaculate Conception on Manastash Creek. He hoped to bri -
Blog postWhat do you get when you put an information activist, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and 15 million 3x5 index cards together?
The Mundaneum!
The what?
Before the Internet and before the World Wide Web there was a central depository of world knowledge known as the Mundaneum.
As long as people have been interested in information, there have been those who have tried to collect it, either hoarding it for themselves or trying to make one central place -
Blog postYou are among the first to see the latest Quilting Circle cover! Lynnette Bonner has created another beautiful one for my series. I love all the covers in this series.
THE DÉBUTANTE’S SECRET is the 4th in the Quilting Circle series releases August 2021 and is now available for pre-order.
~E-book pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09697JTF2/
~Paperback pre-order: Should be live soon.
Will Geneviève open her heart to a love she never imagined?
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Blog posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRqcZcrgPaU
Not that kind of underwater dancing—the kind in fancy dresses . . . but under water.
Sounds pretty strange.
Well, it is strange but possible.
I love eccentric people because they do and create the oddest things.
Out side of London in 1890, Whitaker Wright purchased the Manor of Witley and several other adjoining properties to form what came to be known as Witley Park, a 1 -
Blog postSince masks don’t seem to be going away any time soon and most masks fog my glasses—which means I either can’t see or I can’t see—I decided to hunt for a better mask design. There are so many different designs and many that claim to be no-fog.I have seen ads for these plastic frame-cup sort of things that have holes in them and then a mask goes over them to keep the mask from getting sucked into the mouth and nose. I thought it sounded great, because I don’t like it when I suck the mask fabric i
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Blog postChopin, Kate, 1850-1904 / Public domainContains extracts of works by other authors, personal compositions, notes on current European monarchs, and famous last words of celebrated personages (pages 1-159); and the diary of her 1870 wedding trip from May 24 to September 4 through various eastern United States cities, Germany, and Switzerland (pages 160-203).Title: Commonplace Book of Kate Chopin, 1867-1870
“We think and improve our judgments by committing our thoughts to paper.” President Jo
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