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Hey Bookworms and Adventure-seekers! 📚🚀
Let me tell you, I’ve come a long way from being a book-hungry small-town gal with only a dusty library and an insatiable love for penny candy (easier to buy than books!). 🍭 Now? Holy moly, Batman, the book world is my oyster—or should I say Kindle? 📱💥 Reader-me is living the dream: from Amazon…
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Why I Wrote JUST IN TIME
This is a story that took fourteen years to write, so I feel like there ought to be more to the story behind the story. But this is also 2020 — the year where hindsight is more like ouch, ouch than twenty-twenty. These posts serve two functions for me: I like knowing a bit about the story…
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Two Big Announcements!
It’s been a year for all of us, so I’m kind of amazed to be making this announcement. Just in Time: An Out of Time story has released! It only took me fourteen years to write this follow-up story to Out of Time. Here’s the blurb: He’s racing back to rescue the future. She’s trying to survive her…
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Nostalgia Time: Toys of the Fifties
The toys we played with when we were young generate nostalgic memories of a simpler time of childhood innocence. Toys of the fifties are artifacts of that period. They act like mascots, embodying the spirit of that decade. The baby boom boosted the volume and variety of playthings for kids. Girls were expected to play…
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Fabulous 50’s Cowboys
I grew up in a cowboy culture, both inside my house and out. My dad loved watching Westerns right up to the end of his life. And I came of age in Northern Wyoming where real life cowboys and cowgirls walked the streets, herded animals, and competed in rodeos. I don’t think cowboys started in…
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The 50s Fascination With Space
I wasn’t the only one gazing upwards and wondering if there was anyone else out there. The invention of liquid-fueled rockets in the 30s launched a space-minded pop culture that rose to its peak in the mid-50s to late 60s. During this Space Age, passion for technology and the future infused virtually every aspect of US culture. “Fly…
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Let Me Entertain You — 50s Style!
As part of my research, I looked into how people entertained themselves in the 50s. I have some memories of that time, but they aren’t super clear. Mostly Captain Kangaroo, Lamb Chops and Looney Tunes cartoons. The Road Runner was my favorite, though I always liked that little alien that would occasionally stop by to…
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The Fab ’50s Music!
The ground-breaking music of the 1950s inspired the songs we listen to today. Virtually all music from the fifties featured influences from pop, rock, country, and rhythm & blues. Rock ‘n’ Roll and rockabilly developed and spread in the 50s. Carl Perkins, who wrote “Blue Suede Shoes”, created and performed music that fused country and…
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Fab 50s Look at Palm Springs!
One of the fun places I’ve been “visiting” with my current research is Palm Springs, California. I’ve been looking at maps of the city at the time, and deep-diving other sources. It’s such an interesting place! So I thought you might like a peek at what I’ve been learning. Water and irrigation ditches created the…
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The Fabulous 50’s – The Clothes
As I mentioned last week, I’ve been lost in the 1950s. When I think of the ’50s, I think poodles skirts and ponytails, but—like any other decade—one size did not fit all. In the early ’50s, the world had finished one war and found themselves in another (Korean War), so there was still some…darkness…in fashions…