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Kate Greenaway: Staying True to Your Own Style

Linda Borromeo

7 min read

Kate Greenaway: Staying True to Your Own Style

How do memories transform creativity and imagination? For artist and poet Kate Greenaway, childhood memories created a swirl of color,...

Linda Borromeo

3 min read

Lighthouses

The Flying Lighthouse Santa

It starts with a low rumble. As the noise grows louder, I shade my eyes with a cupped hand and look up at the blue sky. Overhead, the...

They Never Wearied of Stories: Discover a Surprising Children's Library

Linda Borromeo

4 min read

1893 Chicago World's Fair

They Never Wearied of Stories: Discover a Surprising Children's Library

What can the height of a table tell you? If you walked into a special children's library of long ago, a small table could tell you a...

Linda Borromeo

6 min read

1893 Chicago World's Fair

Mary Cassatt and the Vanishing Mural

On a cool autumn evening in Chicago, Christie Edwards faces a life-altering decision. She is attending an awards ceremony at the 1893...

Christmas Paintings: 3 Turning Points of Freedom for Artist Henry O. Tanner

Linda Borromeo

5 min read

Christmas

Christmas Paintings: 3 Turning Points of Freedom for Artist Henry O. Tanner

First Freedom: Escape into the Night She prayed that the night would be kind. Touching her daughter's shoulder one last time, her...

A Spanish Princess, a Glass Dress, and a Creative Gamble

Linda Borromeo

5 min read

1893 Chicago World's Fair

A Spanish Princess, a Glass Dress, and a Creative Gamble

Cinderella's fairy godmother created glass slippers with just a flick of her wand. She would have needed to work overtime, however, to...

A Narnian Christmas Treasure, a Professor, and Africa

Linda Borromeo

4 min read

Books and Reading

A Narnian Christmas Treasure, a Professor, and Africa

Discovering Narnian Treasure I walked in the fragrance of a hundred Christmas trees. On my way to the mailbox, living, sun-warmed cedars...

Grace Darling: Meet a Young Lighthouse Heroine

Linda Borromeo

4 min read

Lighthouses

Grace Darling: Meet a Young Lighthouse Heroine

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...

Linda Borromeo

3 min read

1893 Chicago World's Fair

When a Viking Ship Invaded Chicago

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

Freedom at Dawn: The Inspiring Story of Trailblazing Doctor Susan La Flesche Picotte

Linda Borromeo

5 min read

Inspiring People

Freedom at Dawn: The Inspiring Story of Trailblazing Doctor Susan La Flesche Picotte

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

On a Flight of Dreams: The Courageous Story of Aviator Bessie Coleman

Linda Borromeo

5 min read

Inspiring People

On a Flight of Dreams: The Courageous Story of Aviator Bessie Coleman

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

A Story in a Portrait: The Mysterious Painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Mu

Linda Borromeo

4 min read

Artists

A Story in a Portrait: The Mysterious Painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Mu

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

Catch Your Family's Stories on Thanksgiving: A Mutiny, a Shipwreck, and a Wheel of Cheese

Linda Borromeo

4 min read

Family Activity Ideas

Catch Your Family's Stories on Thanksgiving: A Mutiny, a Shipwreck, and a Wheel of Cheese

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...

Hermenia by the Sea: Meet an Intrepid Lighthouse Keeper's Wife

Linda Borromeo

3 min read

Islands

Hermenia by the Sea: Meet an Intrepid Lighthouse Keeper's Wife

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...

What Hidden Manuscript Would You Most Like to Discover?

Linda Borromeo

3 min read

Books and Reading

What Hidden Manuscript Would You Most Like to Discover?

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

The Mirror World of Emily Dickinson and Carlo

Linda Borromeo

4 min read

Books and Reading

The Mirror World of Emily Dickinson and Carlo

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

Hat Box Dreams: 4 Ways "Anne of Green Gables" Can Help You Achieve Your Creative Goals

Linda Borromeo

5 min read

Creativity

Hat Box Dreams: 4 Ways "Anne of Green Gables" Can Help You Achieve Your Creative Goals

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...

Keep Discovering: The Wonder of Printed Words

Linda Borromeo

3 min read

Books and Reading

Keep Discovering: The Wonder of Printed Words

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

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