Discovering Narnian Treasure I walked into the fragrance of a hundred Christmas trees. On my way to my cluster mailbox about a half-mile...

Driving down the highway, I'm always intrigued when a moving house rolls by me. Propped on the back of a trailer-truck, with a sign...

Please welcome Mary Elizabeth Brown, our guest blogger today. Mary is a musician and writer who is currently working on an historical...

I'm pleased to welcome my first guest blogger, Susan Monk Kannard. Susan has extensive experience as a Reading Specialist and has...

It always surprised Grace Darling to emerge from the shelter of a walled garden to a world exploding with gray light. She looked up at...

A Shimmering World of Illusion One of the delights of writing historical mysteries is the ability to explore different times and imagine...

The heady scent of wisteria mixed with orange blossoms in spring. .. When I opened my window as a child, these are the fragrances that...

Freedom at Dawn Susan La Flesche glanced out her window at the Nebraskan prairie as she finished braiding her long black hair....

Clutching a coin in her hand, young Bessie Coleman hurried out the front door of her home in Waxahachie, Texas. She tightened her...

Nothing is quite so effortlessly haunting as a painting veiled in mystery. Portraits have been the focus of many evocative films and...

I'm trying to remember the name of a Star Trek episode. The plot features a civilization desperate to hear new stories, and then the...

A lone figure walked along the beach after a fierce storm. With her long skirt twisting in the steady wind, she put up a hand to keep her...

The sound of cheering mixed with the emphatic tapping of typewriter keys. Seated at a small table, surrounded by the cheerful noise of...

It began with a small painting. As legend tells it, Samuel Clemens saw a miniature of Olivia Langdon when he met her brother, Charles,...

Like Alice's adventures through the looking-glass, Emily Dickinson's life is full of contradictions and illusions. I knew very little...

On an early spring day, Lucy Maud Montgomery felt a chill when she opened the door to the clothes room. Although the frost had started to...

Every time you visit a lighthouse, there are a wealth of stories to discover. And when you open the pages of a book with a lighthouse...

Dawn streaked the sky with gold and lavender as Assistant Lightkeeper Bel Sinclair opened the tower door. After finishing her watch at...

"...for Assateague belonged to the wild things, and the wild ponies whose ancestors had lived on it since the days of the Spanish...

Would you pay money to spend a vacation washing windows, mowing the lawn, weeding, polishing brass and painting objects high above the...

In between picnics, fireworks, and being out in the midsummer sunshine, the 4th of July weekend is a great time to relax and enjoy a...

The Velvet Room is a surprising and wonderful book I never wanted to read again. When I discovered the book at the age of ten, its...

Did you have a special place as a child to take a book and read? I loved reading outside and could usually be found under a tree with our...

Once upon a time, a shy little girl sat reading at her desk in a combined fifth and sixth grade classroom. Bright sunshine filtered...