Sexual harassment in Egypt has reached plague proportions. To combat the relentless attack on women’s rights—mainly the right to not be physically and emotionally molested—a group of creative women launched a new website last year called HarassMap.org, which encourages female victims of sexual assault to report the abuse via SMS, Twitter, e-mail or phone. The [...]

Forget flowers and candy. When you’re married nearly 40 years and read day and night, the best Valentine’s Day gift is an electronic reader. In our case–a Kindle. The mutual gift is a fitting celebration to getting my books in electronic format.
For several weeks A Shocking & Unnatural Incident and Wixumlee Is My Salvation have [...]

Let me introduce you to the real Wixumlee.
Readers often ask how I came up with this unusual name for a character in my second historical novel, Wixumlee Is My Salvation. I say I heard it while working as a magazine editor 15 years ago.
So, imagine my surprise when a woman named Wixumlee sent me this [...]

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. While the war was fought over a fusion of slavery and states’ rights issues, slavery didn’t end in the United States until December 1865 with passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Or did it? Consider these current event stories:
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