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Friday, August 31, 2018

Hand Therapy--A Writer's Poem for the Labor Day Weekend

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After two months of immobilization of the right arm and shoulder to try to begin the healing for my badly shattered right shoulder joint t...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

The Last Beloved Woman of the Cherokee--Poem

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"She speaks for her clan" by Dorothy Sullivan The Cherokee, like so many Native nations, were matrilineal. The fields, homes, ...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Drunk Screenwriters Write My Family History

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My husband is an internationally recognized scholar in his field and a research maven, so naturally he was drawn to the project of traci...
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Sunday, July 1, 2018

On Listservs, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Sisters in Crime

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As some of my friends and followers on social media know, I have been distressed by reactions to the ALSC renaming of the Laura Ingalls Wi...
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Monday, May 28, 2018

In Memoriam

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On this day 188 years ago, May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which led to the deaths of over 1/4 of th...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Catching Up, or Why I Was Gone

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I have been a very uneven blogger here lately, in part because this past winter has been a physical disaster for me. After developing Gia...
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Saturday, May 12, 2018

Remembering My Mother on Mother's Day With A Poem

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Mother's Day is always a difficult holiday for me. As with many people my age, I buried my mother a number of years ago. So this...