My son-in-law redesigned my website when he came to visit. This blog entry is mostly to test the e-mail function of the blogs on the site. Thanks for being a...

Check out my latest post in the Heroes, Heroines, and History Blog. Visit any historic Colorado mining town, and you will find an opera house (or at least he...

When the Spanish Flu swept the nation in 1918, people responded much as they are responding to today’s pandemic. Here is a fun look at some of the things tha...

Check out my latest post in the Heroes, Heroines, and History Blog. When I saw this picture of Delina Noel with a bear that she shot (in a skirt, no less), I...

Have you ever wondered about the mystical powers of superheroes when they push at each other with some kind of invisible force? The movies depict it as blue ...

Photography in the late 1800s fascinates me. Fancy chemical bottles, glass plates, and wooden box cameras with dark cloth draped over the back. Nothing like ...

This blog is about actual cats. Not some cute thing called a cat colony, like a retirement home or sports bar. Recently, I vacationed in Miami Beach. One mor...

. . . or rich. And I am looking for someone equally beautiful and rich to marry. This seems to be the theme of many ads in Matrimonial News, published throug...

I’ve never envied the rich and famous (okay, maybe a little—who doesn’t). But that didn’t stop me from taking a boat tour to view their homes around Miami. I...

I wasn’t actually abducted by aliens, but I did visit the UFO museum in Roswell, New Mexico. An adventure that threw me into another world . . . An alien wor...

I have puppy brain—at least that’s what I think it is called. I was going to write a blog about something else, but right now, I can only focus on puppies. T...

In 1876, Lake City, Colorado boasted a population of eight hundred to a thousand people—a metropolis, as the Silver World newspaper frequently reminded peopl...

I’ll be changing my blog schedule. Right now, I post a new blog weekly on Thursdays. As much as I enjoy it, I don’t have time for much else, like fiction wri...

The box of aluminum foil soared through the air, straight toward my head. Thankfully, I had spent a season as a volleyball mom and knew enough to put my hand...

Here is a quote from the original 1908 edition of “Scouting for Boys.” “It may happen to some of you that one day, you will be the first to find the dead bod...

No one wants to read a novel about perfect people on a happy adventure. As a writer, I strive to create characters who are both fun and real. Likable, yet fl...

I’ve been a soccer mom, a hockey mom, a scouting mom, and a band mom. When my daughter went to college, I turned into an opera mom. If we are at a restaurant...

Bathroom art continues to amaze me. I wrote about this in an earlier blog, but I’m always on the lookout for new displays. My friend has a typical American h...

Newspapers are always looking for exciting news. But what happens when times are dull? Seriously? “Dull times?” Wasn’t life in 1878 Colorado exciting enough?...

T.V. and movies portray city dwellers as cultured and educated. Articles, like this one in Popular Science, support this stereotype. I’m guessing their autho...