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Alice Paul Works for a Federal Amendment In my last post, Dancing Backwards in High Heels, I wrote of the long and unsuccessful campaign of...
Read MoreAlice Paul Works for a Federal Amendment In my last post, Dancing Backwards in High Heels, I wrote of the long and unsuccessful campaign of...
Read MoreAnne Richards, Governor of Texas, made this remark in her keynote speech at the 1998 National Democratic Covention: After all, Ginger Rogers did everything...
Read MoreI am Woman As a student of history, I learned early on that the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, marked the beginning of the...
Read MoreAs a reader and viewer, I rarely shy away from content displaying violence, cruelty, or explicit sex. As long as the action advances...
Read MoreTis the good reader who makes a good book. Ralph Waldo Emerson Reading to Improve Writing Cuts Like a Two-Edged Sword A powerful...
Read MoreThe main character in my novel is Hattie Robinson. Hattie is idealistic, opinionated and often outspoken. These are traits that put her at...
Read MoreLibrary of Congress Digital Collection of Newspapers I'm researching the historical background of my novel. Thus, I needed to get a sense of daily...
Read MoreThe Story in the Context of National and State Goings-on Once I decided that the setting and time frame for my novel would be...
Read MoreFor a number of years, I'd been working on a collection of stories about my maternal grandmother, whom all of us grandkids called...
Read MoreAfter retiring from my position as a middle school principal in 2011, I took a whole year to chronicle my life journey thus...
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