Abraham Lincoln – Grey Sea & Sky

Native Plants

My mother-in-law once told me that she is the kind of reader who will stop reading once an author makes a stranger’s mistake about a place. A character turns up a street that doesn’t really exist in downtown Chicago, or the Texas landscape is mutilated to satisfy a plot twist. She’s the kind of readerContinue reading “Native Plants”

Lincoln and New Salem

My blog has been quiet for the few months as I’ve been working on my thesis for my graduate program at Pacific University. My thesis is a portion of a novel set in a fictional town not far from New Salem, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln spent six years before moving to Springfield to become a lawyer. TheContinue reading “Lincoln and New Salem”