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Sixty-nine years

Today is my birthday, commemorating sixty-nine years of circling the sun. I thought it would be fun to look back at the way things were when I was born, and what happened that year. Ten events from 1954: Cost of … Continued

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Did you know… St. Valentine?

IS SHE NOT PASSING FAIR?

Is she not passing fair,

She whom I love so well ?

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Coffee Pot Book Club: Geometry Girls

Young adult fiction featuring gambling, bandits, swordplay, probability and Bayes’ Theorem. An English teacher hopes to engage students with colorful STEM adventures. “In this outstanding collection, Tom addresses the chronic problem of our young women dropping out of STEM studies. … Continued

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A Rip in the Veil

‘A Rip in the Veil’ is the first book in The Graham Saga, Anna Belfrage’s time slip series featuring time traveller Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth-century husband, Matthew Graham. On a muggy August day in 2002, Alexandra Lind is inexplicably … Continued

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Coffee Pot Book Club: Ruby Pi and the Math Girls

Today we join the Coffee Pot Book Club tour for Tom Durwood’s “Ruby Pi and the Math Girls”. A collection of adventure stories. Resourceful girls coming of age and changing history — using mathematics. Rupa plays Sherlock Holmes when she … Continued

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Book Review: The River of Mercy by Paula Scott

Small towns have their ups and downs – and their secrets. Maggie thought she’d escaped her growing-up trauma – a drug addict mother, an abusive stepfather, a boyfriend who dumped her for another girl, and football. But somehow, the problems … Continued

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Book Review: The Lines Between US

Spain in Renaissance times was a place of strict rules and class distinctions, with the Roman Catholic Church overseeing most aspects of life. Women in particular had well-circumscribed roles and spheres of activity, particularly among the wealthy. Losing one’s respectability … Continued

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Historical Novel Society Interview

An interview with the Historical Novel Society on my series, Across the Great Divide

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What happened to the Cattle Drives?

the period of the cattle drives was relatively short, beginning in the 1850s, largely suspended during the Civil War, and ending in the 1890s due to railroad expansion. In the beginning, a group of cowboys would drive a herd of as many as a thousand cattle from pastures in Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico north and east to railheads. The towns at the end of the rails were those of western legend - Abeline, Dodge City, Wichita, Ellsworth, Cheyenne, Denver, Fort Worth, and Dallas.

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A fascinating look at NYC 1913 Whispering Women by Trish Macenulty

The Whispering Women by Trish MacEnulty My rating: 4 of 5 stars You are pulled into the world of 1913 NYC, glimpsing through the doors and windows at the less-than-stellar lives of the upper class. MacEnulty gives a compelling vision … Continued

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