• A discussion of Peggy's (my mother's) autobiography, a thinly disguised biography of Taylor Caldwell.
• Chapter 2: Annie Caldwell (1880–1953). This is Peggy's view of TC's hardscrabble life: I divided the monograph into chapters, with titles, and abstracts.

✺ 01-06-20TestimonyofTwoMen: Heads up on a sale of nine TC books by Open Road

• Featured one of TC's most exemplary female characters in "Testimony of Two Men"
• Discussion of feedback on my release of Peggy's Chapter 2 and the context for the construction of the autobiography.

✺ 01-08-20YourSinsandMine: Prelude to a more complete story of Taylor Caldwell

• A sale on "Your Sins and Mine" and its dystopian theme.
• The eulogy I wrote for mother: "Seeing a Mother Through Depression"

✺ 01-09-20LongListTCNovels: Eight Taylor Caldwell promotions from Open Road, including substantive abstracts and some more extensive family reviews of the books.

• To Look and Pass
• Ceremony of the Innocent
• The Final Hour
• Let Love Come Last
• Never Victorious, Never Defeated
• The Arm and the Darkness
• Great Lion of God
• The Balance Wheel

✺ 01-28-20Chap2-AnnieCaldwell: Expanding the mystery of TC's relevance: Peggy's autobiography

• Even I learned from rereading this Chapter 2: For example, she replicates what she had done with Judy by teaching me to write before I went to Kindergarten.
• That the indelible marks from your childhood can be striking to others, and disturbing to you when so discovered.

✺ 01-28-20Chap2-AnnieCaldwell-addendum: Interchanges with TC-Descendant Readers on Chapter 2 of Peggy's autobiography.

• I retyped the scan of Chapter 2, and made it available with a link. My hope is that some remnant of the 900+ scanned pages might someday make a skeleton for a more extensive volume on TC and her impact on conservative thinking.
• Reader question: what exactly is the mindset of someone who is abused, who recalls vividly the hateful abuse, and yet ends up replicating it with great venom?
• My Question: The famous novelist, with surpassing talent can create images of great feminine attractiveness, charm, intelligence, care, that she cannot replicate herself.
• Comments on the 3-generation-abuse with TC and Peggy in the chain, that then stopped.
• The distinction between my mother (Peggy) and TC: TC clearly being much tougher.

✺ 02-22-20TenderVictory: Perfectly bridging two world fracturing wars

• Review of "Tender Victory" by Patricia Nolan Stein
• Three pictures of the Pittsburgh area during TC's childhood that was featured in her early novels.

✺ 02-22-20TwoTCs: Meshing TC's smarts and complexity

• A comparison of TC with my other grandparents, also immigrants during and what they took from their immigrant experience.
• Some facts on TC's life and her particular placement to represent continuity between the two world wars.

✺ 03-09-20Devil-Glory-Captains: The Years and Records of TC's Fame; gone but not quite forgotten

• The abstract of Chapter 8: Travel in a Tiny World. More about Peggy and the effect on her of traveling in TC's sphere.
• In The Devil's Advocate, hints of TC's influence on the John Birch Society.

✺ 03-23-20TwoTrilogies: A Tale of Two Trilogies

• The Armaments Family
• Diatribes on Evil