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Another Day, Another Step Forward
My Grandma and I in 1955 Where I Was Seventy Years Ago I lived with my grandparents on a farm halfway between Elk Falls and Moline, Kansas. A year later, my grandmother died, and I went to live with my…
Hazel Hart is a writer and editor of historical and contemporary fiction.
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My Grandma and I in 1955 Where I Was Seventy Years Ago I lived with my grandparents on a farm halfway between Elk Falls and Moline, Kansas. A year later, my grandmother died, and I went to live with my…
It is November 12, 2025 as I write this. I have read instructions, watched videos, made multiple attempts to edit this page, and I haven’t had much success. Here’s hoping this will work. If you are reading this, I have achieved today’s goal.
The Night Before Christmas, my first novel, took thirty years from the first draft to publication.

In the 1960s, I majored in English thinking once I learned the rules of grammar and sentence structure, they would stay the same. Little did I know. New style guides come out every year with updated rules.
And then there are the words. What was a receipt in the nineteenth century is a recipe now. As soon as I figure out how to add a link to the post, I’ll do that.