by michelle | Jul 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bookshop.org is offering some deals in competition with Prime Days. My book You are Not Alone is on sale; there is also free shipping on all orders and a free tote for those who purchase $100 worth of books. If you purchase a copy of my book from their site during...
by michelle | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
I felt like a little kid on Christmas morning as my husband drove our vehicle into the parking lot of the uniquely shaped building. I practically bounced out of my seat. Wearing my “adventure hat,” a tie-dyed hat from the M&M store I had acquired on our last...
by michelle | Jul 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Today I bought some beautiful silk flowers to decorate my front table for the month of August. They were on clearance as I walked into Michaels with my daughter so she could make a return. I had not planned on buying anything. But, when I saw the flowers, I thought of...
by michelle | Jul 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
More than just the birth of the United States with the Declaration of Independence, July 4 can also be remembered as an ending. On July 4, 1826, two of the Founding Fathers died, 578 miles and 5 hours apart. Fifty years after the Continental Congress voted to adopt...
by michelle | Jul 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s July, which means it’s “camp” for me. Two years ago this month I took the month of July to write the first draft of my memoir, the book that you can now buy here. It was a great month to get thoughts down on paper, to translate notes and journal entries into...
by michelle | Jun 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Earlier this month I took a trip to visit the East Coast, including Boston and Quincy, towns in Massachusetts. John and Abigail Adams made their home in Braintree, which later renamed Quincy after Abigail’s grandfather. I am a big fan of this Founding pair,...
by michelle | Apr 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
It has finally happened! My first book is available at the local library (Round Lake Area Public Library). Please put in a request for your library to get a copy. Thanks to my friend Jennifer for sending the picture.
by michelle | Mar 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
This woman did more than just refuse to give up her seat on a bus; she sparked a movement for change in the United States. Born in Alabama in 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was the firstborn of two children in her family. Recalling her childhood on her grandparents’...
by michelle | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
By allowing her private struggles to become public, this woman saved countless lives and changed the way society dealt with taboo issues. Born in Chicago in 1918, Elizabeth Anne “Betty” Bloomer Ford spent her childhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied...
by michelle | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
A leader in the women’s suffrage movement and the first Hispanic woman to run for Congress, she also served as the first female superintendent of schools in her city. Born in 1881 into a wealthy family on a hacienda in what is now New Mexico, Adelina “Nina”...
