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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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I concentrated on my writing in August, to the detriment of my reading; however, I did read two interesting and very different books. P.S. I Forgive You: A Broken Legacy, by D.G. Kaye In this memoir, D.G. Kaye writes about how difficult and painful it was to grow up with a narcissistic mother. Everything was …

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When we think about earthquakes in the United States, our thoughts usually jump to California, but 140 years ago today Charleston, South Carolina experienced a powerful one. The Charleston Earthquake predated the Richter Scale, but it is estimated now that it was probably a magnitude 6.9 to 7.3. It was felt as far north as …

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I love maps, but just let me say that the Trump Administration has once again acted loose and fast with the facts. We all remember when Trump took a Sharpie pen and altered a NOAA hurricane prediction map to show Hurricane Dorian taking aim at Alabama. The latest in White House-issued maps was apparently intended …

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I have heard it said that the 19th Amendment “gave” women the right to vote. The verb “gave” or “gives” is a slap in the face of all the women (and men) who risked their lives to have the right to vote. It would be tantamount to saying that black people in the United States …

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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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