Candice McDonald
For the Alamogordo News There are women in history who left tidy records of their lives in precise, enduring diaries, in letters on lovely stationery paper in envelopes chronologically tied together with ribbons, and carefully written dates noted without drama in family Bibles between the Old and New Testaments. Their archived lives are preserved in perfectly scripted ink and carry the authority of who they begat and whom they w…