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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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When I read or hear about something that’s not making “the news,” I jot down notes, in case I want to use that information in a blog post. I haven’t blogged since last Friday, so it felt like I needed to put in an appearance today. This post is going to be a bit disjointed, …

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When I say it was a great privilege for me to get to write 175 local history articles for a free local weekly newspaper in Harrisburg, North Carolina for almost seven years, it is an understatement. I was paid $25 per article, which in no way compensated me for my time and any skill I …

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I have not blogged this week. I had planned to post on Monday and again on Tuesday, but the topics I had planned seemed frivolous in light of world events. Here in the United States, we find ourselves in a war no one wanted. We find ourselves with a President and Vice President who have …

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I write this on the evening of April 7, 2026, as the President of the United States becomes more unhinged by the minute. He clearly places no value on human life. Once again, at the proverbial eleventh hour, he snatched us back from the brink of a “civilization ending” attack on Iran. Was that his …

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As part of my weekly or semi-weekly series of blog posts to highlight topics I wrote about in my two local history books, Harrisburg, Did You Know? Cabarrus History, Book 1 and Harrisburg, Did You Know? Cabarrus History, Book 2, today I will tell you a little about an April 11, 1897 train wreck in …

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