The U-boat dilemma for a submariner’s wife
The U-Boat Dilemma
The U-boat dilemma for a submariner’s wife
Finding Winnie: the Pooh Bear’s True History
Finding Winner–in which we learn the true story of a funny old bear.
The Importance of Research Discipline
I was a year or so into writing a detailed genealogy when one of my distant cousins challenged my research discipline. “You’re a fine writer, and you concoct very interesting ideas, but it means nothing if you don’t cite the references.” Glenn had spent years researching his family history. He happily shared with me. However, I had to prove how…
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Reading Love Letters
Do you like to read love letters? Well, certainly if they’re addressed to you. But what if, as an historian, you’re reading someone else’s love letters, say a husband to his wife during a war? I’ve written about this issue before and, frankly, it feels intrusive. The question still remains in my mind: “Is it research or voyeurism?” Look at the…
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What is Bandage Rolling?
If you’ve read as many WWI books and war-based fiction as I have, you may be wondering “what IS bandage rolling?” Why were women always rolling bandages and what did it have to do with war? As a child in 20th century America, the only bandages I knew were Band-Aids. How do your roll those? When we got too “proficient”…
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Novelists and Prayer Requests
Do novelists have an easier time with prayer requests than “normal” people? In the sense that they can imagine God doing great and wonderful things even in the grimmest circumstances? Do you know people like that? Or if not a novelist like me, do you perhaps know imaginative people who often speak with confidence about what God could do? My husband…
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