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"There is nothing wrong with straightforward stories of triumph over adversity, but life, and especially life with disabilities, is usually more complicated. It is not a smooth rising arc. There are setbacks. There are failures. It may take constan..."

"The Medieval Period spans a thousand years, roughly 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D., and ranges from what used to be called the Dark Ages after the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the early stirrings of what came to be called the Renaissance. That's a l..."

"G.B. Shaw said in English you can spell 'fish' G-H-O-T-I, and he's right. Why is English so stubbornly inconsistent and just plain weird? Why is 'through' pronounced 'thru,' but 'tough' pronounced 'tuff'? Why is it considered ungrammatical to spl..."

"When it comes to facts and figures, there probably isn't much left to say about World War II that hasn't already been said, but it remains an incredibly rich and compelling era for writers of historical fiction."

"The Gilded Age (rougly 1865-1898) was glittering era of robber barons, where fortunes rose faster than morals and industry outpaced equality—a time when America wore gold on the outside and rusted on the inside. It is also an uncommonly rich vein ..."