Of all the strange Christmas traditions observed in English-speaking countries over the years—kissing under the mistletoe, hanging stockings...

I love history, but I also love modern medicine, microwaves and the ability to buy what I eat instead of growing it. Luckily, modern life a...

Well, a recipe for a romantic dinner. I love to cook and so does my heroine, Rebeka. This is a favorite recipe of our bookish scholarly hero...

For the next few months, I'm going to be recycling a series of posts from my blog on how to manage titles and forms of address within th...

As a Brit now living in warmer climes, I get very nostalgic come autumn time. For me it conjures up images of roaring log fires, the curtain...

Americans in the United States learn the history of Thanksgiving as school children--how the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in P...

Hot cocoa or hot chocolate as we say in the South dates back the ancient Mayans and Aztecs. It was nothing like the hot cocoa we have today...

History is littered with civilizations. Some of which we know a great deal about, while others are shrouded in great mystery.   We know a l...

Last month’s offering was about the ancient Avebury stones in Southern England. The stone circles and megaliths that pre-date written hi...

Today is Election Day in America. I cast my vote weeks ago, since Washington is a vote-by-mail state, so today I'll just be biting my na...

These are some questions I was asked a while ago, which help to explain why I feel compelled to write. Ring any bells? 1) I started...

It’s October, and that means Halloween and things that go bump in the night—or, sometimes, bang in the night. Did you know that until 1827,...