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Janet's Writing Blog: Janet's Writing Blog – I write southern historical fiction, local history, and I've written a devotional book. The two novels I'm writing are set in Virginia and the Carolinas in the 1760s. My weekly blog started out to follow my journey as a writer and a reader, but in 2025 it has been greatly expanded to include current events and politics in the United States as I see our democracy under attack from within. The political science major in me cannot sit idly by and remain silent.

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Today’s blog post is about a North Carolinian most North Carolinians have never heard of. Such is the way that women and people of color have been left out of our history books. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was born in slavery in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 10, 1858. She never knew who her father …

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I guess I was in worse shape in June and early July than I realized. I have stated in at least one blog that I enjoyed the novels I read in June because I hadn’t read a novel since January. I was surprised a couple of weeks ago to find a list of the books …

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We all have days when every little thing seems to go wrong and one insignificant event leads to another insignificant event until things come to a head. I had one of those afternoons yesterday. It all started last week with a fraudulent charge on my credit card which necessitated the issuance of a new card. …

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The United States was officially neutral regarding World War I when, on July 30, 1916, German agents blew up the Black Tom railyard on land that is now part of Liberty State Park in New Jersey. A blogger friend of mine, Francisco Cabrera, brought this event to my attention a couple of years ago. I …

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I took a three- or four-week break from blogging in June. While I disappeared from the blogosphere, I learned some things. Here are 15 of them: I learned a lot in June! Last week I learned that when a fawn runs away from its mother, Mama Deer will look for her fawn 24/7 to the …

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