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One thing I love about the Victorian Age is its epic scope. Choose any decade, any year, even any month, in that era and you can find something important--whether political, social, or cultural--happening and not only in England. My current project is a novella set in 1879, a prequel to my just-finished manuscript, which takes place in 1888. To get the ball rolling, I entered the date on Wikipedia to see which events had shaped that year--with fascinating results. Here are just a few important things that happened in 1879. 1) The Anglo-Zulu War: Given the spread of colonialism and size of its empire, it was no surprise to learn that Britain was at war, somewhere in the world. This conflict involved the Kingdom of Zululand in South Africa, was marked by a number of bloody battles, and lasted from January to July, when the British defeated the Zulus at Ulundi. But one of the most notable casualties of the war was Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France, the twenty-three year...

In an interview someone asked me to tell them something about myself that no one knew. Well, most folks don't know that I wrote a humorous weekly newspaper column for fourteen years or that I wanted to be a race car driver at one time. Since it's impossible for me to tell you anything about Nascar except that the cars go very very fast, maybe I'd best stick with what I know a little tiny bit about...writing...which burns very little calories, almost no fat grams and hasn't even managed to keep my fingers skinny. I was looking at a magazine in the doctor's office last week and saw an article about folks who sit in front of a computer every day needing to exercise more and eat less. Well, duh! That's nothing new. I wrote about folks needing exercise a decade ago in one of those afore mentioned columns. Surprising enough it still rings true and it went like this... Everything I read about folks who are prone to heart problems keeps harping on and on and ...