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I would like to express my thanks to Donna Kay Chopp of Detroit for granting her

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

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

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

Think back to first grade: did you read My Little Red Story Book or My Little White House? Read on! Ginn Basic Reader - My Little Red Story

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

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

Okay, so I tend to geek out on family history - and not just my own. But why talk about it on a blog geared to writing historical fiction? What does one

Halloween has been a favorite of mine since my early childhood, as I grew up in an area heavily trafficked by trick-or-treaters, and the night ended with a large bonfire party in

One great source of inspiration while writing is art from the period in which I am writing about: in this case regency England. One author who proves an excellent source of such

In my last post on Research History Using School Annuals, regarding yearbooks for family history, I mentioned using old school yearbooks as a resource for character and setting development for writing fiction. [caption

When I was seven, the woman who had raised my mother died, leaving Mom the 1830s Greek Revival in upstate New York that she had inherited about 1910. Built as a wedding

Our Giberian Shepsky, Tala is always at my feet when I'm writing. In fact, she's nearly always at my feet full stop. This is Taly kicking back after taking a break from

I found this cool article from the BBC on why to use a typewriter. My mother long ago discarded the antique portable that had belonged to my grandmother. Today I miss that