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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, 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...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

A Freedom of the Press

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Katherine Graham  Freedom of the press has always been essential to making America work.  Information from more sources is essential to keep...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Does It Impact Me?

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The Gerrymander   Some time ago I posted a blog on gerrymandering, primarily sharing the history.  This blog addresses the challenges and im...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Are We Looking for a New Planet

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 I confess that I place taking better care of our planet on a higher level than many people do...maybe more than most.  I think that it is a...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Does AI have a Since of Conscious?

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  Most of us are familiar with 2001, a Space Odessey, but we may not realize how many other films have also involved Androids who became a c...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Is AI taking Over?

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 A few years ago, I blogged about AI.  I was concerned about kids using it to cheat on assigned compositions.  I bemoaned the impact of arti...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Don't Forget the Ladies

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What really matters!     I have written often about Presidents, but far less often about the Presidents' wives.  Many things impact the ...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

What is morality?

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Do we face a setting sun? In a recent editorial in The Atlantic, David Brooks wrote "Today we live in a world in which many, if not mos...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

I like you!

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 When I was young, our family tradition was for my father's family to gather at the farm.  My father had inherited the home where he and...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine  It is important to remember that the American colonies began by fighting for rights, not separation from England.  When those ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Teddy Roosevelt's Unique Achievements

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 I have mentioned Teddy Roosevelt in other blogs, but I want to share what a monumental influence he left, things we do not always think of ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Importance of John Adams

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   A quote from John Adams:  Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Sometimes a Maverick

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  The way we choose our Presidents is sometimes less than logical.  I recalled the day an intelligent, thoughtful young women made a comment...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

The Way We Talk

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Mark Twain was a master of words.  Am I the only one who has noticed increasing vulgarity in everyday speech?   This blog looks at changes i...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The Concerns of Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson was only 14 when his father died, and he inherited the responsibility of the family estate.  In his youth he had studied La...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Guidance of Lincoln

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 Over the years, I have had reasons to admire various Presidents, but Lincoln always impresses me.  What a challenge he faced.  But he never...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

A Reader's Comment

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A reader responded with the following words:        The problem is that many school districts do not require a basic course in civics.  Back...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Understanding our Government

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  A few weeks ago, I posted a diagram of how our government works.  You may want to return to that blog to review the diagram; however, I ho...
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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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