by Pepper Basham | Mar 31, 2021 | Pepper Basham, Uncategorized
What is a special place that helped you get through 2020 🙂 Here is one of mine! (see below for...
by Pepper Basham | Feb 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve heard people often say that writing is a solitary experience. And, I can imagine that before the internet, in many ways it could have been! There are some who may prefer the isolation (and that is TOTALLY fine – we all create differently), but...
by Pepper Basham | Feb 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
I have a wonderful obsession with the BBC series Victoria. Yes, the storyline is great! Yes, the acting is wonderful! Yes, the costuming is superb and the setting is fantastic. But you know what makes it absolutely marvelous to me? The relationships – particularly...
by Pepper Basham | Jun 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Named after the famed king of France, Louis IX, St. Louis is a glittering city on the Missouri River. Most notable for The Gateway Arch, it’s baseball team (Cardinals, in case you don’t know), and, in my opinion, its pizza!! Yum! St. Louis’ history included lots of...
by Pepper Basham | Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
On this day, 119 years ago, George and Edith Vanderbilt married in a service in France. After their four-month long honeymoon, George brought his bride (called by many of the Appalachian natives ‘a princess’) back home to his estate in the Blue Ridge Mountains of...
by Pepper Basham | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Karen Schravemade – the newest writer for The Writers Alley. Check it out at http://thewritersalleys.blogspot.com