Archive - The Book of Mary

I hate to miss a week here on my newsletter, but when you are so close to finishing the edits to the next book stuff happens or doesn’t.

Jul 17 •

June 2025

Preserving Invisible Histories

Before I write a newsletter post, I go back through what I have recently written.

Jun 27 •

Archives - how they work and why they are important

As I hear from readers of my book, The Traveling Archivist, I consistently get comments about how much people are learning about archives - how they…

Jun 12 •

May 2025

I love writing my newsletter posts.

May 23 •

Using archival records to reveal hidden histories

Learning how to talk about my novel

May 2 •

April 2025

Joy Spotting in Iowa

Bright spots in the face of everything

Apr 18 •

Trying to gather my thoughts into words

I am struggling to organize the thoughts, ideas, irritations, and fears in my mind to write a semi-coherent newsletter.

Apr 4 •

March 2025

Archives are for all of us

That is how I ended my last newsletter.

Mar 14 •

February 2025

Is this what it feels like to be an author?

The last 2 weeks have been a whirl wind of activities - mostly emails and posts on LinkedIn - the only social media platform that feels fairly troll…

Feb 28 •

Della, Here We Go

Meet Della Waters the Traveling Archivist

Feb 14 •

January 2025

Last week I received the final proof of my novel The Traveling Archivist.

Jan 31 •

Studying the past to plan for the future

Jan 17 •

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