Hello again my friends and readers! I bet you are wondering what interesting things I was doing at university last semester?
Heya Every pony!
As longtime readers will know, I like to write a blog for Authors Notes whenever I publish something new. My latest story is no exception. I hope you all enjoy!
A Long Journey to an Uncertain Destination
The story of “Up The Ohio Canal” starts with another story: “Team Boat”.
This last weekend I went to a Civil War reenactment in Sydney, Ohio. It was a great small event, our unit was able to field two cannons this time and all the younger members of the Battery (myself, Mr. N & Mrs. S) were there. It was super fun, and a great way to spend a birthday weekend.
I'm sure you're all dying to know, right? Well, I've been busy finishing my masters degree in public history off by working a summer internship (it was the last requirement I had to fulfill to graduate)! I was reluctant to talk about it while I was still an intern, because for reasons known only to themselves the WRHS made me sign an NDA (which aside from being super sus is probably not legally worth the paper it's printed on, but I wasn't taking chances). Now that it's all over and my
"I'm back in the saddle again... out where a friend is a friend."
After a hiatus of some three years, I once more found myself on the floor of TrotCon. There is something wonderful, profoundly odd, and comforting about returning to a place you haven't been to in several years. On the one hand the scene is familiar, the hotel the same as always. Yet there is always a beautiful newness to it all, of seeing things through the eyes of the present and the now, versus the lens of memory.
Hello again my loyal readers! It has been too long since I last wrote for you, I know. I have been most busy as of late, working on an internship that should bring my work to get a master’s degree in public history to an end. But that’s a story for another day. Instead enjoy a tedious essay on sex, gender, and writing! Or just skip over it and get straight to the author notes on Beach Bod.
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