I would like to express my thanks to Donna Kay Chopp of Detroit for granting her permission to me to use her photo on my web site. Donna regularly provides beautiful and haunting images taken around the city of Detroit showing the decay, both natural and man-made to structures and elements of this beautiful city. …
Tomorrow Google “National Coffee Day” and you’ll find links to free cups of joe in your neighborhood. For me, every day is “Coffee Day” as one is required to get my engines revving, though I’m my own barista as I grind my grounds each morning and yawn at my Mr. Coffee while I wait for …
I used to work in administration, and I love research so I wanted to take a look at this “National Research Administrator Day” listed on the national calendar of holidays and celebrate with some great research links! Research is vital to any writer, whether you are writing contemporary fiction or historical. A writer needs to …
Mary Katherine Goddard – an 18th Century American Businesswoman Born in Connecticut in 1738, she was a printer, publisher and postmaster, and she was the first to print a published version of the Declaration of Independence. Mary Katherine Goddard started out helping in her brother’s print shop in Providence with her mother, Sarah Updike as …
Think back to first grade: did you read My Little Red Story Book or My Little White House? Read on! This was years before the 1980s when reading education began with index cards labelling each item in the house such as “table” and, if the parents could find a way to attach the card, “dog.” …
The Detroit Free Press first reported baseball game was played on August 15, 1857 when the Franklin Baseball Club, a local amateur group, took the field in a lot on the corner of Adams Avenue and Beaubien – an intersection now replaced by Ford Field. Though cricket was then the more popular game, small groups …
Writing a blog post or web content is about the passion of the person or business behind the Blog. Web content is the heart of the web site, while the blog posts needs to reinforce the message, draw interest and followers. While I will continue to write my historical fiction works, I am happy to …
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Pictured in my last blog post were some items around my house with a bit of green in them. I briefly described most of them but purposely ignored my Pilgrim Lady. She deserves a post all her own. It’s funny the items we inherit that have been in our homes or …
