Two Nerdy History Girls: Another return engagement

1856-1871 Fashion Print

©Victoria and Albert Museum, London

You don’t hear from me for months. Then I’m bothering you weekly. This makes sense to me. I don’t send blog posts unless I’ve something to say that doesn’t belong in the Work In Progress.

But an EVENT is coming up soon. Author Susan Holloway Scott and I return under the kind auspices of the Ashland Public Library and Super-librarian Meena Jain to talk nerdy history. Some of you may recall our blog, named, aptly enough Two Nerdy History Girls. It’s still there, still searchable, though we stopped posting a few years ago.

While we’ve stopped posting blogs there, we haven’t stopped being nerdy about history, and so we welcome the opportunity to talk about what we feel is truly interesting about the past. The focus is not on politics and wars but on how people lived: what they wore, what they ate, where they lived, how they got from one place to another. To us, research combines detective work with time travel.

If you read my books, you probably have a bit of interest in the past, too. Maybe you have questions. I do hope so, because that’s fun. Even when we don’t know the answers, you can be sure we’ll jump at the chance to hunt them down.

DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS

When: 10 January 7PM

Where: Virtual

To join us, please register at: https://bit.ly/apl-2nerdy3

Happy New Year!

© Victoria and Albert Museum

It’s hard to believe we’re starting a new one already. Some, but not all, will be glad to see the back of 2022. In my case, it had its ups and downs, but the unblocking of my writer’s block brightened my perspective considerably.

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding and the very kind messages you’ve sent over the course of the year. I wish I’d been able to answer everybody, but that’s an unfulfilled wish for a number of reasons. Among other things, my author email ran amok, and the repair process had some unintended consequences. In short, things got lost.

Still, we can’t totally blame technical problems. Throughout the writer’s block I did continue writing, with a couple of breaks, and that was where my time went. It was very bad writing, but it seemed to me that the only way to get through it was to keep on doing it until the problem, whatever it was, got out of my system. That method seems to have worked. The Blackwoods have stopped being impossible. They’re still a bit out of sorts, and it’s still slow going, but at least it’s going and at least they’re making a real effort to cooperate. Fingers crossed we can get through this whole thing in the brand new year.

I wish you a beautiful 2023, filled with good friends, good times, good books, in whatever order you like.