Category: History
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10 Mana Wāhine o Hawai‘i – Powerful Women of Hawai‘i
This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2022. It’s perfect to start Women’s History Month, so enjoy!
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The Best Turkey Stuffing Ever
While many foods can be stuffed, and a variety of ingredients used, at the holidays we stuff turkey with bread and spices. Beyond that, the imagination has no limits. Did you know that the Victorians changed the traditional term ‘stuffing’, which they found offensive, to ‘dressing’? I know my grandmother’s recipe was always called Turkey…
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Seeds of Family Fiction
The basis of each of my novels is a family story. Some I heard from my grandmother, and others I discovered while researching my family tree. Recently I attended Ancestor Seekers, a wonderful week-long event at the Family Search Library in Salt Lake City. There I spent five full days looking for documentation of names…
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The Men of INNOCENTS AT HOME
My newest novel, Innocents at Home, features two women who were on the cruise with Mark Twain that inspired his novel Innocents Abroad. You can read more about Nina Larrowe and Emma Beach in a previous post. Although the story is dominated by the women, Innocents at Home includes some interesting men from history. From…
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The Quaker City
The steamship Quaker City at the port of Naples, 1867, Tommaso de Simone In 1867, Mark Twain took a five-month journey to the Holy Land aboard the Quaker City steamship. That voyage became the basis for his first major work, the novel Innocents Abroad. The book was the first of its kind, a novel about…