With my most recent novella, A Christmas Tree for Trudel , I wanted to set it near where I live in the southern California mountains. As I s...

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Post by Doris McCraw writing as Angela Raines Photo property of the author Like a lot of people, 2021 was kind of a lost year. I didn't ...

“I thought we were going to work in the back fields today, but we’re actually going to town? Now that’s a horse of a different color!” The o...

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Years ago, when I was in high school, I talked my mom into making taffy one cold winter day. She'd never made it before, but was game to...

According to the American Etiquette Rules of Politeness , written by Walker, Houghton in 1883, “There is no situation in which a lady is mor...