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Hello and thanks for checking in. Today I am deviating from a usual pattern or focusing on other women and focusing a little on my life. Fall is my favorite season and is always a time of introspection. As someone who is in her later years, the autumn of my life, I think a lot about seasons of the heart, about how much I have lived, loved and changed during various seasons in this precious lifetime that I have lived so far. These years offer such an invitation to freedom, to

Hello All! Thanks for checking in. Hope you are all doing well. What a beautiful, transitional morning we are having here is SW Colorado! Earlier it was raining, then the sun came out, (of course I looked for rainbows) and now it is snowing. I loved being out in the wind as it carried little snow pellets to caress my cheeks. Got some of the remaining garden chores completed before it got too messy out there. Wow. Getting colder and we are about to have a taste of winter. Brin

Hello All, thanks for stopping by. I am late today because the beautiful fall day hijacked most of my earlier plans. It was delightful. Fall is my favorite season! I hope that you are enjoying it too. They Persisted is progressing nicely. That really makes me happy and I'm so anxious to hold that new, beautiful version in my hand. Soon! Today I am sharing a few more women you will find in that book when it comes off the press. The women haven't changed. They are the same. The

I am delighted to announce that the arduous task of preparing the second edition of They Persisted for print is done! I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my soul sister, and editor, Laurie Martin. She sure did persist through this process and actually made it fun. I never thought I could call editing fun, but she pulled it off! It will be going to print next week, we will receive our review copies, then within a few days, it will be back in circulation! This time without those

Dorothy Celene Thompson was born on July 9, 1893, in Lancaster, N.Y. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister. Dorothy’s mother, Margaret, died in 1901, and her father, Peter, remarried two years later. This was not a joyous occasion for Dorothy. She and her stepmother, Elizabeth Abbot Thompson, did not get along and fought frequently. In 1908, exasperated, Dorothy’s father sent her to live with relatives in Chicago, where she attended the Lewis Institute. Later she moved