Recently a beta reader sent me an email questioning my portrayal of children being in school in June. This story (which I should finish soon) occurs in Golden Colorado in 1865. That is Golden City, Colorado Territory. I sent the reader a brief note that schooling wasn’t the same in the 19th century as it is today. Then in an offhand remark stated, “you must realize that most young people completed school by ninth-grade.” Nowadays when you hear the term, he has a ninth-grade e

Recently, I received an email asking, “Who is Michelle Tanner? Is she whole cloth from your imagination? Is she based on a real person? Will she ever find love?” Those are valid questions. Let’s start with, who is Michelle Tanner? She is a fictional frontier woman who lived her life like men lived their lives in the period of history between the Civil War and turn of the century. Michelle lived in that time we call, the Old West. A proud, fiercely independent woman who refuse

In pursuing the internet about TV show intro’s, the little voice over in front of the beginning of shows, like, “These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.” … “Hoping his next leap…will be the leap home.” … “There’s a signpost up ahead.” … “When they met, it was murder.” (come on now you can figure that one out) … “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” I came across a real gem I had forgotten. I always liked, “There are eight million stories in the naked city, thi