“No one will vote for her. She’s a woman.” And so started a joke that launched a sleepy Kansas town to international fame—as the first...

I will be fifty my next birthday. Some days I feel like a kid, some days I feel a little old, but I don’t feel fifty. My daddy used to...

Mattie and John In light of all the racial tension boiling in Ferguson, I thought it would be uplifting to remind us that, even in the...

John had Abigail. Romeo had Juliet. Chief Ouray had Chipeta. Chief Ouray and Chipeta Unless you live in Colorado or are a student of...

The past and the present I love the stories of women who, on the verge of losing everything, look defeat squarely in the eye and knock...

Do you remember your first boyfriend? Was he, perhaps, a bit of a bad influence? Did you follow him into escapades that now leave you...

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Antonia Ford, a pretty, sassy spy for the Confederacy, didn’t mind batting her eyelashes at a Union soldier if it got her intelligence....

Sometimes, just existing is such a task. A college roommate said that to me many years ago. For some reason, I thought of that when I...