Linda's Page

  Elias Howe was born in Massachusetts in 1819. He was apprenticed at a textile factory, and later worked as a mechanic with carding machine...

  While planning my entry for the 2015 State Fair Quilt Challenge, I bought a fat quarter bundle in jewel tones to compliment the bold, brig...

  If she’d been born only a generation or two earlier, Katherine Johnson probably wouldn’t have been taught to read or write, much less to m...

  Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,   And sw...

  It probably happens a few times every year. A kid – maybe it’s my imagination, but it seems like it’s usually a boy – is fascinated with t...

  “Followers of Jesus Christ minister one to another, rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep, remember the poor and...

  Spring came late this year, but it’s here now. My crocuses are spent, and there are pear and cherry buds EVERYWHERE. Before you know it, t...