admin2025-10-13T20:01:50+00:00October 13th, 2025|Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
My Author Adventure: How It All Started Welcome, friends, to one of my new blog posts. I’ll try to write something at least each week and maybe more often if there’s any interest in what I have to say. As you can see on my website, there’s lots of information about my previous writing
admin2019-06-28T20:14:30+00:00June 28th, 2019|Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
National Alaska Day is June 28, so here are some photos from an Alaska Cruise I took in September 2017 with my sister, Gail, and friends. I’m standing on a dock in Ketchikan, Alaska, with its harbor in the background. Check out the cruise ship in my sunglasses! Alaska is a spectacular place to visit!
admin2019-06-20T18:06:15+00:00June 22nd, 2019|Carol Ann’s Adventures, Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
Last May on our Route 66 Road Trip halfway across America, we left the Mother Road to drive down to My Possibilities in Plano, Texas. MP serves folks with special needs and they arranged a cool car show for their Hipsters to introduce them to my car Hawk’s Ride! It’s a 1937 Ford Slant back
admin2019-06-20T17:42:07+00:00June 20th, 2019|Carol Ann’s Adventures, Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
On a recent Sea of Cortez Boat Trip in Mexico, here are some photos I took of different shorelines. Rocky shorelines with white sand beaches were the surprise of the first day and each day afterwards! More rocky backdrops with white sand and rippling water lapping the shore. This great rocky outcropping looked a
admin2019-05-30T19:36:09+00:00May 30th, 2019|Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
It's the unofficial kick off of summer! Kids are out of school, families are planning road trips, and many of us are enjoying the warmer weather throughout the United States. In celebration of this fun season, you can buy all FOUR of my 50s book series for only $32.00! My 1950s children's book, Sinister
admin2019-05-10T19:49:52+00:00April 23rd, 2019|Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
I love the Fifties. That's probably why I've written a series of four books, The 1950s Adventures of Pete and Carol Ann, set in the fabulous fifties in El Monte, California, for grade school chapter-book readers. Kids of that era grew up in a different way than they do today. Not better, not worse, just…different
admin2019-03-27T16:52:09+00:00March 27th, 2019|Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
Springtime in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is so lovely! A year ago, in the Spring of 2018 on a visit to Coeur d’Alene, I discovered this gorgeous garden in one of the city’s cute neighborhoods. If you’ve never visited this special city find time to go there! I love Springtime and wrote all about it in
admin2019-01-30T22:44:12+00:00December 21st, 2018|Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
On the first day of Winter, I was reminded of my many Winter Wanderings throughout this wonderful Christmas season. Foremost in my wanderings is my book, Wild Winter: Christmas, Clues, and Crooks. The characters wander from one exciting adventure to another during the month of December 1955. What better way is there to represent
admin2019-01-30T23:00:33+00:00November 28th, 2018|Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
What a blast it was to be able to visit Arkansas in the Autumn! My friends and I like to seek out antique malls, hills covered in gorgeous Autumn foliage, thrift shops, glory trees, country food, and days of "Ohs and awes!" Saw this awesome Autumn color on the trees in Prairie Grove Battlefield
admin2019-01-30T22:58:38+00:00October 24th, 2018|Posts From C.A. Hartnell|
Polio is a vicious disease that for countless years caused suffering for adults and children across the United States and around the world until a vaccine mostly stopped it in the spring of 1955. My historical fiction, children's chapter book, Scary Spring: Our Polio Fright of 1955, written for 8 and up, is about
