Ruth Doan MacDougall

Essays, Travelogues, Reflections, & Short Stories

Travelogues
The Girl Scout Trip
The Doan Sisters Go to England

Essays
      The Silent Generation
      Writing A Born Maniac, or Puddles's Progress
      Introduction to "The Diary Man" by Daniel Doan

Reflections
      A First!
      Frugalitites
      More About Ironing
      Sequel Reader
     Paul <sigh> Newman
     Where That Barn Used to Be
     Work

Short Stories
Boot, Saddle, to Horse, and Away!

Milestone
Laughing with Leonard

Ruth Doan MacDougall is a prolific writer! While she works diligently on her novels and on the hiking guidebooks that her father, Daniel Doan, began and that she continues to maintain, she writes in many other formats as well.

Reflections are short essays that arise from letters and e-mails that Ruth receives. Communications from fans and friends frequently stir old memories or offer an opportunity for her to make new connections. These reflections first appear on the HOME page and are then archived in this section.

Ruth's Neighborhood, Ruth's blog about life in her neighborhood and the surrounding area, has been a part of this Web site since the beginning.. The oldest entries are "on vacation" at this time; they will return in some format later in 2012.

The Travelogues were written recently from journals and diaries that Ruth kept at the times these trips were taken.

The Milestones section is reserved for Ruth's reflections on life-changing events.