History, Real Life, and Faith
Biographies of people who affected my happiness first became important to me in 1983. I figured if I knew something about –usually–the men who wielded an influence on my life, I might better roll with emotional punches delivered to innocent me. It started with my husband’s ultimate boss. One man controlled my husband’s time and how he did his job: Rear…
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When is it research and when is it voyeurism? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself. I’ve been reading diaries and letters obtained during a swing through the South. The heroine‘s sister made me question the decision to read other people’s personal accounts when she scrawled a stern warning on the opening page of her diary, written when she was…
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How literature affects our life–whether we mean it to or not.
Have you ever been house touring? We’ve always enjoyed the scene in A&E’s Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth Bennett tours Mr. Darcy‘s mansion and shocks both of them by meeting him down by the lake. Apparently even 200 years ago, visiting the large unique homes of the wealthy was a tourist past time. Touring homes, however, is something I don’t…
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Research Serendipity in a small Tennessee town.
The Ipad is an invaluable tool for research. I discovered that for the first time in 2012. It more than paid for itself in ease during a two-week swing through the South researching a novel. Here are three ways it made a great difference in my ease of research: 1. Camera. At the University of Kentucky,, I could handle actual…
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