Historical Flavor: Where is the Pony Express?
Sandra Ardoin @SandraArdoin On April 3, 1860, the first Pony Express riders left St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California for the west and east, respectively. Its era lasted only a little over a year and a half, but oh my,…
Historical Flavor: “One ringy dingy…”
Sandra Ardoin @SandraArdoin If, like me, you still remember talking on a Princess phone, you also remember those words in the title and the accompanying snort from Lily Tomlin’s telephone operator character Ernestine on Laugh-In. In case you don’t remember,…
Historical Flavor: Learning From History
Sandra Ardoin @SandraArdoin Whatever your leanings (and, please, I don’t care to know them), we’re getting ready to welcome another president to the White House. I thought it might be fun to gain a little insight into one from the…
Book Review: For the Record by Regina Jennings
Sandra Ardoin @SandraArdoin I read At Love’s Bidding (review here) and was absolutely charmed by Betsy Huckabee, a sharp-witted, independent, and somewhat wily almost-teen who inserted herself into the story of Wyatt and Miranda. In Regina Jennings’s newest historical romance set in the Missouri Ozarks,…