Life in the Past Lane

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• Happy Thanksgiving!

  27 Nov, 2014 - 09:13 am

• Honoring our Veterans

  11 Nov, 2014 - 10:46 am

  After a computer crash this fall, I was going through old files that had been backed up on a disc, and ran across this post. I remember every detail of the events it describes, but I have absolutely no memory of ever writing it down.Even though it focuses on 9/11, its subject matter is the honor,...

• A star-spangled visit to Fort McHenry

  13 Oct, 2014 - 09:05 am

  The flag still flies at the spot where it was seen by FrancisScott Key when he penned the Star Spangled Banner.It's been exactly a month since I visited "the birthplace of the National Anthem" for the 200th anniversary of the "Star Spangled Banner," but I am only just getting around to writing a...

• Two-time winner of Southern Fiction Award

  30 Jun, 2014 - 12:06 pm

  I can't believe summer is really here, and we are heading into the Fourth of July holiday weekend! I have been trying to get the garden in shape, but it's been slow-going this year. We do finally have some beans coming, along with broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, corn, sweet potatoes, and cucumbers....

• Patriots' Day marks release of Revolutionary War novella

  17 Apr, 2014 - 10:03 am

  Revolutionary War novellaBy Jessica James"The spark from a single candlecan light a sacred flame."I'm sure most of you remember the poem that starts:"On the 18th of April in '75,Hardly a man is still aliveThat remembers that famous day and year."Yes, it's called "Paul Revere's Ride," and it's...