This novel came about in odd littles way. For years, the idea of a troubled young girl and a haunted house has floated around in the ethers of my mind. When I was still in high school, I started an early draft of the story, not knowing that it would one day become this novel. [...]
I'm thrilled to share with you all some very exciting news! After years of drafts and rewrites, my first novel, The Children's Field, will be published later this year. It's been an incredible journey of writing and exploring the world and story I created, time spent editing and sharing my story with beta readers, and [...]
July marks the sixth month anniversary of my Write Chain Challenge that I set for myself in December 2016. My challenge for myself was to write 200 words every day. Each day that you write, you add a "link" (proverbial or real, it's up to you) to your chain. If you don't write, your chain [...]
Today's post is about my great great grandmother, Maria Elizabeth Meier. She is very near and dear to my heart. Elizabeth, as she was known, once lived in the old family home I grew up in, and she also passed away there. I'm also very blessed to have a compilation of the Meier's family history [...]
James Patrick McManigal, my 3x great-grandfather, was born sometime around 1798 in Virginia. While the colonies had been there for well over 100 years, America as a country had been independent for only fifteen years. And John Adams had succeeded George Washington as the nation's second president in the year before James was born. So far, [...]
There is a summary of David Kennaley's life here, but I wanted to delve a little deeper into things. David Kennaley was my 3x great grandfather on my father's side. Please note: while the surname Kennaley has changed multiple times over the years: Kennaley, Keneily, Kenealy, Connelly, Canale, Connal, etc. for sanity purposes, I will use the spelling [...]
This past weekend, my mom and I traveled to Fort Morgan, CO for my uncle's wedding. On our return trip, we drove the prettiest two-lane highways through southern Nebraska to see the old Wildrick homestead that had been my 3x great grandparents, John Wesley and Minnie Wildrick's, and to stop by the cemetery in Cambridge, [...]
As my mom and I were putting the finishing touches on our quickly planned family reunion this past weekend, I began organizing my very messy genealogy binders and came across an old newspaper article I had discovered a couple of years ago. This is one of my favorite articles, because so very rarely do I find [...]
I've had a love of history for as long as I can remember. And it makes sense, I suppose as my grandfather taught history at a local high school. Some of my fondest memories as a child were crawling into his lap with selections from his collection of American History books. By the time I [...]
BRIANNA WRIGHT 