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What's in a Name?
My recent return to Spain where I deepened my knowledge of the Spanish Inquisition gave me pause regarding the naming of the main...


A Research Journey
Well, it’s been a while. In November of last year, I took a spectacularly stupid fall down a flight of stairs that resulted in a...

A UP book recommendation
As a huge fan of Mary Doria Russell’s A Thread of Grace, and Doc, I came to The Women of the Copper Country with high expectations. I...

Stitching Together the Novel Research
By now, many of my readers and anyone who knows me well have learned that I love book research, and in the course of my five years of...


Another Tick off the Bucket List
When I retired twelve years ago, the top item on my bucket list was to write a novel, but my top TRAVEL bucket list choice was New...

Invisibility of Older Women? Not So Much...
I keep running across blog posts and articles on the topic of older women. Most decry the fading of everything from bodies to influence....


Tarot Reading as Book Research
For at least ten years, I’d passed the brightly painted sign along the winding road on the peninsula where I love to live in northwest...


Let Justice Run Down Like Water...
There is at best a terrible irony that in the same week that the President of the United States of America failed to condemn the racist...
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