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Cover of a small book by John Hammond, 1643. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1594136551136-LAL1DNIUPCVZ85FESQCN/Bliss+-+Margaret+Hulins+-+House+at+Springfield+-+1645-1+-+small.jpg Collected Short Pieces - Mary Bliss Parsons: The Witch of Northampton Mary’s mother, Margaret Hulins Bliss’ house at Springfield. 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That is what strangers thought when they looked at little Karen, a beautiful child from a loving family, growing up without a care in the world. They did not see the pressure to be perfect. The instability of a family dealing with alcoholism and the euphemistically termed "melancholy." The risks a growing child, a young lady, would take to feel that she was something more. The raw honesty of The Glass Castle meets the glamour of 1950s Hollywood in Karen's journey to break free of PRETTY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1591555118060-8Y2JR10KDRWKKQF1CSDL/webkmary_edited-1.jpg Pretty: A Memoir By 1939, the year this photo was taken of one-year-old of Karen, American women had been allowed the vote for only eighteen years. Except for marriage, little girls like her had few expectations for their futures. Girls were lucky if they were pretty — everybody thought so. That's Aunt Mary showing Karen how to powder her nose. https://www.karenvorbeckwilliams.com/my-enemys-tears daily 0.75 2020-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1591808800139-STNJWV49TH5YD1HB2BI4/hi_res-KVWenemytears.jpg My Enemy's Tears - She was real. She was rich and beautiful. She was tried as a witch in 1675 — and survived. Based on the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman, My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton, takes us back to life in the Puritan settlements along the Connectict River, a terrifying wilderness full of warring natives, natural wonders and disasters--portents of God's anger or a witch's meddling curse. Mary and Sarah grow up amid Puritan superstition and piety, busy with their household chores, one imagining a life different from her mother's and the other eager to marry and bear sons. They spend their married lives in the villages of Springfield and Northampton, where a youthful disagreement festers into a reason to hate and then to fear. As the years pass, one accuses the other of murder by witchcraft, prompting a trial before the Court of Assistants in Boston--17 years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials. This fictional account of a true story describes two lives in conflict--one cursed and one blessed--and the transcendent power of forgiveness. https://www.karenvorbeckwilliams.com/house-on-seventh-street daily 0.75 2020-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1594134406089-58X5SYJJRFH9QEZ5T5RD/Untitled-2.png House On Seventh Street - The reviews are in, and House On Seventh Street is a hit! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1591808829189-5BBX76CIWRV90MVMTKER/zRhianna+Davies+final+hi+res+cover.jpg House On Seventh Street - The House on Seventh Street As the old house gives up its secrets — a handwritten will and hidden jewels — Winna questions everything she knows about her beloved grandmother. As Winna shares memories with her married daughter, reconciles with her disinherited sister Chloe, and becomes reacquainted with old classmates, the old house gives up its secrets. A handwritten will, old love letters, an unfinished story in a notebook, and a diamond ring hidden among her childhood marbles call into question everything Winna knows about her beloved grandmother. Then come footsteps on the stairs, numerous break-ins, her car's brake failure on a mountain road, a fall down the basement stairs. Someone is trying to kill Winna. She can't begin to think it is her sister or Todd, Chloe's handsome new husband. Could it be her high school boyfriend John or the local handyman she's hired? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1594134549012-2TS7CF553MAXVNXGU0LT/USR.jpg House On Seventh Street Read review by Carol Anderson, D.Min., ACSW, LMSW https://www.karenvorbeckwilliams.com/about daily 0.75 2020-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1591559647296-R7X26VSR7AIJBR6DC330/website3IMG_7971_edited-1.jpg About Karen Vorbeck Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1591559623946-5FW9WVSNBTESP71QR0NW/webMom-7029-Edit_edited-1.jpg About Karen Vorbeck Williams https://www.karenvorbeckwilliams.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edbf11cc2ea105c785f67f9/1594134667561-MIOC1SJ2EW264TOYPJAJ/karen%2Band%2Bcup.jpg Contact - Contact Karen for press, media inquiries, or other collaborations below.