Yavapai Dances
Among our time travelers is a sibling group (Zach, age 10, and twins, Helena and Yelena, age 9) who are…
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Browsing Category: America
Turquoise
A sky blue gemstone found in only a few places in the world. Including Egypt and Arizona. Turquoise is a…
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Voices in My Head
Hearing voices in modern culture is almost always diagnosed as some sort of mental illness. Ditto seeing things that aren’t…
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How to Speak Like a Baptist
Two of my point of view characters are siblings Phoebe and Malcolm. Their dad, Irving, has (non-practicing) Jewish parents. Their…
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Baptist Church Life: Houston and Beyond
This post contains foundational research which I use in the followup, How to Speak Like a Baptist. The Baptist Faith…
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The Mosquito Fleet of Galveston
Galveston and Galveston Bay is a long-standing shrimping area just south of Houston, Texas. The rich marine resources of Galveston…
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Phoebe’s Hair
One of my viewpoint characters is Phoebe, a 12 year girl from 1995 Arizona with a black mom and a…
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The Kindertransport
As Nazi Germany increased its power and scapegoated Jews and others it deemed “undesirable,” many sought to leave Germany (and…
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Native Peoples of Yavapai County
Among my child characters from Barberry Lake, Arizona, are 3 siblings. Zachery James, age 10, and his twin sisters, Helena…
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The Story of Barberry Lake
Barberry Lake, Arizona is a small fictional town with not quite 20,000 people, in the mountains of Central Arizona, in…
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The Lake of Barberry Lake
In my fictional town of Barberry Lake, there is a fictional lake called (wait for it) Barberry Lake. In this…
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