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As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was
February 11, 2026
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As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was
Several weeks ago, my older granddaughter announced to me, with grammatical precision if not ideal
Since I moved to Seattle, I’ve been reading about the city’s early history, when the
I recently received a notification from somewhere in my social media memories that I launched
I wrote last summer about my son’s first overnight camp experience, at the YMCA’s Camp
This year I’ve posted several times about my husband’s and my courtship forty years ago.
June is a good month for travel. Most places are not yet too hot, yet
Last Sunday morning I saw six deer on the fairway behind our house. They were
In my current work-in-progress I have two female characters who are pregnant, one for the
My fourth-grade teacher was a rather strict nun whose name I cannot remember. (I think
For our 25th wedding anniversary in 2002, my husband and I went to Aruba. First,
I love classical music, but in recent years, I haven’t had many chances to experience
In August 1985, thirty-five years ago this month, I returned to work after my second
As a child, I spent a lot of time with my maternal grandmother, my Nanny
As a desert-born girl, I hate the rain. I don’t like it dripping on me.
Like many writers, I have a love/hate relationship with social media. Marketing gurus tell writers
The Kansas City metropolitan area spans the state line between Kansas and Missouri. Kansas City,
On January 1, I read a piece by Lauren Jackson in the New York Times’s
As the oldest child, I didn’t have to wear many hand-me-downs. Occasionally, I wore clothes
Mac McDougall, one of the major characters in my series, is an attorney who is
Fifteen years ago, in July 1998, our family took a hiking vacation in Switzerland. We