Don't let the pink dress and frilly collar distract you from the important detail here: this child is wielding a whip. Take a look ...

If you’re anything like me, a story has to hook me from the first.   It doesn’t matter if it’s a book, short story, stage performance, or s...

Happy Mother's Day to all our wonderful readers. In celebration of Mother's Day, I offer you some vintage images of mothers from a...

My apologies for being a day late with this post--my only excuse is that we've had sort of a mini heat wave here in Seattle. Yesterday o...

In these so-called enlightened times, do we life in a classless society? I don't think so. Even today when everything is so much ...

I spent this past weekend traveling with my daughter, a high school senior, to visit one of the oldest colleges in the U.S. It got me thinki...

I’ve always been fascinated by the way the ancient world worked.   The juxtaposition of   the innovations of the Greeks and Romans when lai...

I am a non-fiction history fanatic and I have been since junior high. I’m not saying I didn’t read my share of Sweet Valley High or Flower...

This past weekend my husband and I spent two days in Washington D.C. We took the train from Newark, N.J. and stayed at the Willard Hotel, ...

Sorry to be a bit late in putting this post up--my daughter's 9th birthday is today, and she had her two best friends over for a sleepo...

It’s sometimes hard, as a twenty-first century reader and writer, to put myself in the heads of early nineteenth century characters. We thi...

As an avowed History Geek, I could not pass up the opportunity to visit the Tennessee State Museum last Monday to view the original Emanc...

               I am a avid reader of non-fiction history and it is usually while I’m reading that some sentence or fact will make me sit u...

I was perusing the blogs I read and came across this article in Publisher's Weekly. Kevin Smokler's book,  Practical Classics: 5...

For previous entries in this series, follow the tags at the end of the post. Say the word "knight," and it conjures an image of...

I’ve just completed the edits for Beguiling the Barrister, the second in my  Forsters series. The hero is a barrister struggling to make ...