In lieu of Writer Wednesday today, I’d like to talk to you about something more personal. This week my aunt, who was also my godmother, passed away suddenly. Faith and prayer is one area that my aunt and I shared as important in our lives. In addition to this, I have been conducting a lot…
How The Economist reported Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, that sparked WWI, 100 years ago…
Image from The Broke and the Bookish Today, I’m participating in “Top Ten Tuesday”, listing ten of my top friendship books. There are several important friendships that feature in Across the River, and my own friends are an important and treasured part of my life. Therefore, this seemed like the perfect Top Ten to participate…
Today is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s birthday and in honor of that, I’d like to share her Sonnet 43, which is perhaps her best known poem. It’s certainly the first encounter I had with her, through the magnet with the poem and the rainbow etched behind it that used to hang on our refrigerator. Living in…
Words hold the power to alter history. Perhaps, this is no better remembered than on this day- the 4th of July. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,…
Sutter’s Mill, where gold was first discovered in California in 1848, is one of the first historic places I remember visiting as an eager elementary school student. Colonial Williamsburg is another such location. In both places history surged to life. To walk among the stones and roads where history really occurred ignited something in me….
Historical Fiction infuses color into the black and white of the historic prologue. With historic events as the prologue to my stories, it is up to me to try to color them with authenticity, to bring the faded pages into vivid focus. Budapest View from 1935 To the left is a photo of Budapest from…