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Sharing history and news about my books, most recently "Prairie Bachelor" and a new manuscript under review, "Footprints on the Prairie."

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Looking Backward to Understand the Present

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Most of you know that I often consult the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, and once again I seek their prospective.  In the process of gainin...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

The Larry and Lyn Oz Collection

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Scare Crow Our home is going to feel a little empty soon, for just like always, kids will want to go away on their own to see the world.  Bu...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The Importance of Civics

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Those who fought for Freedom When Sandra Day O'Conner left the Supreme Court Bench, primarily because of the poor health of her husband,...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Two Things Happened

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Recently I had two things happen only a few days apart.  One regular reader of my blog wrote in my comment section that I had "pussy fo...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Valentines and Marriages

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 Recently, at a performance in our town, the performers asked couples in the audience to raise their hands and keep them raised as long as t...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

One Chance to Make an Impression.

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My great grandmother and her daughter, her son's daughter, and me--four generations in my family were teachers.          The old saying ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Sanctuary Cities

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  I had some understanding of Sanctuary cities, but I realized that I needed to do more research to better understand.  I had no idea of the...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Presidential Pardons

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  President Washington was the first to grant a pardon.  The purpose of pardons was to grant mercy, correct judicial errors, and promote nat...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

George Orwell's Animals

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Buddies Have you noticed just how intelligent animals can be, and how sometimes they have buddies, like these two that we watched for severa...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Campaign Promises

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Recently I came across a campaign speech for the presidency.  The candidate chose to make one of his first speeches in Kansas.  His theme wa...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The Final Thoughts of a President

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      I have sometimes wondered how Presidents feel on the day they leave the Presidency.  Are they satisfied with the decisions they made? ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Holiday Traditions of Indigenous People

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    A regular follower of my blog reminded me that I had not included the ways in which those earliest people to occupy the Northen Hemisphe...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The Wisdom of Oz

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 My husband and I are gifting our collection of the Wizard of Oz to Fort Hays State University, and I am going through all of the collection...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Something to Think About

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 We are in the midst of the winter holiday season.  It is a good time to reflect on the special nature of our history.  Certainly, the tradi...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Reflections on Time

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       There has been so much reporting on the news about immigration, a topic I assumed was a distant matter in my own family.  However, on...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Thanksgiving History

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  Was there really a Thanksgiving Meeting between English colonists and Wampanoag people?  Apparently yes, but it was not necessarily what w...
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Thursday, November 20, 2025

Rights, Responsibilities, and Wisdom

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The First Amendment  Congress shall make no law respecting or establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging ...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

The Challenge of Finding Solutions

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My blog last spring titled "Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" addressed the upheaval when President Donald Trump named himse...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Something to Consider

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Sometimes the ideas for my blog just pop into my head with no explanation.  Last night we were returning from a wonderful musical performanc...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Are People Better of Worse Than in the Past?

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 While I was browsing online, I came across an article titled "Are we worse than people used to be.?"   Psychologists Adam Mastroc...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The Impact of Fandom

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  My Older Brother, back when a Senior could drive the school bus I must begin with my credentials, so you will not think that I am just som...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Advice from Atticus

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 As an attorney, I have often talked with young people considering a career as a lawyer, some of whom had already been accepted and were ask...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Solutions Instead of Criticisms

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A World War One Poster   Recently I came across a letter to President John F. Kennedy, preserved in the National archives.  A young man wrot...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

A Consideration for All of Us

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First, do some old-fashioned research!  When I watched a student sit-in on the television, I could only wonder how informed those students w...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Are Lies Running Rampant?

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Pinocchio       I decided that at a time when there is no imminent upcoming Election I could write a blog without it seeming to be about a p...
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Lynda Beck Fenwick
Visit Lynda Beck Fenwick on facebook. Author: "Prairie Bachelor, The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement," chosen as a Kansas Notable Book, 2021; "Should the Children Pray? A Historical, Judicial and Political Examination of Public School Prayer"; Selected as Georgia Author of the Year for Nonfiction; "Private Choices, Public Consequences, Reproductive Technology and the New Ethics of Conception, Pregnancy, and Family"; Short Story "The Woman Who Loved Atticus" award winner in Texas Bar Journal June 2010; Author Pages, Lynda Beck Fenwick at amazon.com; My biography can be found at https://lynfenwick.com
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