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Rowena is sort of getting the hang of life, don’t you think? Still, there’s a lot left to do between now and her Very Special Day. Can she handle it all? You know, I’ll bet she can!

Interested in more of my stuff? You can read some humor columns in the Dixie Dispatch Archives. Plus there’s our sister site GlamCam.com (featuring Rowena’s more commercial sister).

If you’re curious about where the stories started (and why I started them), check out our About the Stories page. There’s a bit of information about me personally on About the Author. And you should definitely take some time to check out some of the sites that are kind enough to link to Rowena’s Page.

Thanks for reading!
-SDY-

What’s New?

August 24, 2026:
- Maintenance Release:
  - Replaced the remaining table based layout with flex boxes.
  - Added html landmarks and ARIA tags.
  - Changed apostrophes to utf-8.
  - Updated external links.
  - Testing “@media (pointer: coarse)” to make clicking links easier on touch screens.
  - Set the server to refer all http requests to https (end of the old Web).
January 9, 2023:
- Coding updates:
  - Added “canonical” tags pointing to the https site. Restored height and width tags on images. Minor changes in wording on some of the support pages. Adjustment of preferred line-break points for narrow browser windows. Correction of errors in navigational links.
- Experimental:
  - Added Structured Data to the main page, specifying it as a book series; and to Cooks A Meal, specifying it as part of the book. In principle this gives automated systems a more generous clue about how to classify the site. We shall see.
December 2, 2022:
- GlamCam.com Updated:
  - Near total re-coding of the site with flexboxes and conditional CSS, to account for the viewports of both unreasonably narrow mobile devices and unreasonably wide desktop windows.
  - New version of Typewriting Analysis.
  - Added a Credits page.
January 22, 2022:
- Server Change:
  - Added SSL / HTTPS access.
September 16, 2021:
- Story Added:
  - Rowena Goes Dress-Hunting.
- Simplified some presentations:
  - Moved the Tables of Contents back to the front page.
  - Combined the two About the Stories pages into a single narrative.
- Modernized some of the coding, particularly for compatibility with mobile devices:
  - Moved the major style declarations to an external style sheet.
  - Added viewport directives.
  - Converted some table based layout to flex boxes.
  - Changed some sizes to rescalable forms.
  - Restored the blinking cursors on the Milliways stories.
March 12, 2019:
- Did an overdue cleanup.
  - Updated many external links.
  - Cleaned and consolidated the backlink pages.
  - Converted the site to HTML 5.
c. April, 2012:
- The last server for the “red” family has left the net. After 16 years, Rowena’s original URL on red-agnes and my first e-mail address @red-eft no longer respond. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
July 25, 2010:
- Stories Added:
  - Rowena Mediates A Dispute
  - Rowena Helps With A Surprise
- Rowena’s Page design updated:
  - Outset boarders changed to textured edges with drop shadow.
  - Line lengths increased.
  - More prominent links to Table of Contents added at the end of stories.
  - File sizes removed from story links.
  - First use of CSS3 (rgba).
August 7, 2008:
- Story Added:
  - Rowena Upholds Tradition
January 31, 2008:
- Stories Added:
  - Rowena Thinks Of Lemurs
  - Rowena Takes A Break
August 2, 2007:
- Stories Added:
- Rowena’s Page design updated:
  - Converted to UTF-8 character set (curly quotes).
  - Subtitle changed to be more descriptive.
  - Lemur pictures adjusted to look more like the printed book.
January 28, 2007:
- Stories Added:
- Rowena’s Page design updated:
  - Font set to Georgia.
  - “Double-dashes” converted to em dash character entities.
  - Backlink pages re-set in paragraphs instead of dictionary lists.
January 31, 2006:
- Stories Added:
- GlamCam.com Updated:
  - Pretty in Pink.
- Rowena’s Page design updated:
  - Cover Art for Volumes II & III introduced.
  - Table of contents pages for each volume created.
  - Backlink page split.
  - Background textures introduced. Courtesy of WebGround, “the biggest free original background textures site in the world.”
August 5, 2005:
- Stories Added:
- GlamCam.com Updated:
  - What Fabulous Monster Are You?
January 30, 2005:
- Stories Added:
  - Rowena Gets A New Phone
  - Rowena Talks To Girls
- GlamCam.com Updated:
  - What Crystal Are You?
August 22, 2004:
- Stories Added:
  - Rowena Buys Some Flowers
  - Rowena Arrives Prepared
January 31, 2004:
- Stories Added:
  - Rowena Gives Thanks
  - Rowena Hits The Mall
- “Teenager Style” Homepage for SDY Added.
- GlamCam.com Updated:
  - New design.
  - Typewriting Analysis.
July 31, 2003:
- Stories Added:
  - Rowena Goes To The Laundromat
  - Rowena Goes To A Taping
- GlamCam.com Updated:
January 31, 2003:
- Stories Added:
  - Rowena Plans A Party
  - Rowena Takes A Trip
October 8, 2002:
- Story Added:
  - Rowena Turns Buyer
- Skeptics’ Introduction added.
May 21, 2002:
- Stories Added:
- Note: that million dollars Dean was bugging Sunnie Daye about? ~~It’s real. Check out the James Randi Educational Foundation One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.~~ The JREF prize has been retired, but there’s a new Paranormal Challenge from the Center for Inquiry Investigations Group. It’s only half as much, but like Dean said, “I’ll split it with you 50/50; you don’t have to keep your half if you don’t want it!”
- Initial version of GlamCam.com.
- Rowena Gets A Life released in paperback.
August 10, 2001:
- Stories Added:
March 8, 2001:
- Stories Added:
January 31, 2001:
- After almost five years on red-agnes, Rowena moves to sdy.org.
August 11, 2000:
- Stories Added:
- Cover Art for Volume I introduced.
- Rowena’s Page Goes CSS1.
February 19, 2000:
- Rowena Gets A Haircut modified and made Rowena’s Life Part 2.
January 31, 2000:
- Stories Added:
August 7, 1999:
- Stories Added:
January 30, 1999:
- Stories Added:
August 5, 1998:
- Stories Added:
- Technical Notes revised.
- Rowena’s Page Goes HTML 4.0 (transitional).
February 11, 1998:
- Stories Added:
- Links section expanded and moved to its own page.
July 30, 1997:
- Stories Added:
- More About The Stories Added. Including:
January 23, 1997:
- Stories Added:
- Technical Notes Added.
- Rowena’s Page Goes HTML 3.2.
July 24, 1996:
- Stories Added:
February 28, 1996:
- Rowena’s Page Is Released
- Initial Stories: