Update On My Writing

     It has been over six months since I have blogged anything about my writing.  This past April I wrote about my WWI Nurses project and that blog can be found HERE.  I did want to update everyone about what I have been up to this year.   Earlier this year I wrote a biographical sketch about an ancestor who was a nurse midwife during the late 1700s and early 1800s in Pennsylvania.  Her name was Susanna Rohrer Muller and that article was published this fall in the magazine Mennonite Family History. It can be obtained HERE.  But most of this year has been spent working on a very special project. 

     Starting in the mid 1990s my aunt and I started taking weekend get away vacations that we called "Mary Rohrer Weekends".  We named them this because we shared the same maiden first and last names.  On one of these weekends, we began to talk about the idea of a family cookbook.  We chatted about our cookbook from year to year.  We wanted to honor the women we knew in the 1900s and the lives that they lived.  As a result, when we decided that 2019 was the year we were actually going to write the cook book, in addition to recipes, we included biographical sketches and descriptions of what home making was like during the 20th Century.  

     We finally completed the book and it is available on lulu.com.   A coil bound paperback  can be obtained HERE or and an ebook can be obtained  HERE.  

     Before this project, I had aspirations to write a book when I retire.  But after both of us have worked so hard all this year on this project I have decided that I don't want to work that hard in my retirement.  I would like to to continue to write biographical sketches and short articles about the women in my family history.   I do have research started to write a biographical sketch of my great great grandfather's sister and plan to write it early in 2020.  But the rest of this year I am taking a writing break!