Fire Island...
Fire Island has a large and mostly tame deer population.
My dear bloggy friends, it has been more than two weeks since I last posted and I’ve missed you. Though it may seem like I fell off the blogosphere in truth I’ve been running around, collecting photos and doing interviews for future...
Morning Food...
I have never been a morning person but I have always loved morning food. Golden Belgian waffles dusted with white confectioners sugar and red raspberries; fluffy pancakes drizzled with pure maple syrup; dandelion-yellow scrambled eggs with a side of crispy home fries. Simple meals like this evoke memories...
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
