For our 250th anniversary I’ve been speaking about the feisty, faithful women of the American Revoution. This includes interviews and in-person talks. Check out some of the interviews listed in my press kit. It’s fun to share about amazing women like Abigail Snelling, wife of Captain Josiah Snelling who built Fort Snelling. The fort included housing for her family. She taught Sunday school and even started a school for local native Americans. She helped forge the way for widows to receive...read more

The last straw, the last call about my son's behavior that I thought I could handle caused me to change forever. It really was over a straw my son took from a boy's milk carton and threw on the floor. That boy continually bothered my son and that day during lunch he left his table and crossed the room to where my son sat quietly dinking his milk and teased him again, loudly. But again my son got in trouble not the bullying boy.  I chose to ask questions instead of arguing or focusing on my son’s...read more

I wrote many true stories of women in American history inmy  home front book. I was amazed as I researched and discovered the courage and faith of these women and their chidren throught our nation’s history. Oe role involved spying on the Britiash. Here are a few women to check out. A few heroines Katherine Montgomery Bedsloe rolled spy messages in her curls while Emily Geiger rode through the dark of night to deliver mnessages. Another spy, Mrs. Patience Wright, sculpted in wax. She moved to England before...read more