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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many […]
WELCOME TO MY NEW SITE FOR NEWSLETTERS
The author extends greetings to new and existing WordPress followers, and announces the publication of their twelfth book, “THE KNOTTED RING.”
J.K. ROWLING’S 2008 HARVARD COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
A friend sent to me and I felt compelled to share it: The Fringe Benefits of Failure & the Importance of Imagination J.K. Rowling Harvard University Commencement Address, June 5, 2008 President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates. The first […]
WE ARE NOT IN THE SAME BOAT
I’ve heard that we are all in the same boat, but it’s not like that. We are in the same storm, not in the same boat. Your ship could be shipwrecked and mine sailing safely. For some, quarantine is optimal––a moment of reflection, of re-connection, easy in flip flops, with a cocktail or coffee. For […]
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
In case you have wondered where I’ve been for the last nine months, I have been writing my eleventh book. A LONG WAY HOME is a step away from my mostly nineteenth-century Texas historical tales. The seed for A LONG WAY HOME took root immediately after 9/11. For some reason that would require a psychiatrist […]
I am sharing a review of WATERS PLANTATION, my latest historical fiction. It’s another Texas tale for you lovers of Texas history. https://maryannwrites.com/2019/06/02/book-review-waters-plantation-by-myra-hargrave-mcilvain/
The Doctor’s Wife by Myra Hargrave McIlvain
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Texas After Independence
General Santa Anna was disgraced and removed from power by Mexican officials when they heard he had lost an eighteen-minute battle against a much-smaller Texan force on April 21, 1836. Therefore, Mexico gave no value to the treaty Santa Anna signed granting Texas its independence. Santa Anna regained favor with the Mexican people in 1838 […]
THE BIG THICKET OF TEXAS
A Texas historical marker on FM 770, a few miles east of Saratoga in deep East Texas, credits Lancelot “Lance” Rosier with being one of the individuals responsible for the creation of the Big Thicket National Preserve, a sprawling wonderland of biodiversity so unique that UNESCO designated the region a Biosphere Reserve in 1981. A […]
Texas Retrieves A 16th Century Treasure
Three Spanish galleons, caught in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico, wrecked on the sandbars just off Padre Island on April 29, 1554. Ironically, as the flotilla sailed from Veracruz, a Dominican missionary on his way for an audience with the Pope, shared his sinister forebodings: “Woe be to those who are going to […]