This past weekend, I finally finished Draft 2 of my work-in-progress. Because of our cross-country
Now that my husband and I are functional in our new apartment (though not entirely
This blog was on hiatus for a little longer than I expected. Followers of my
My husband and I recently returned from a trip to South Dakota. I’d never been
Last weekend was Easter, and I reminisced about past Easter vacations. We took many vacations
I wrote recently about my daughter’s 8th-grade graduation in 1999. After I wrote that post,
As I mentioned in my last post, my granddaughter just passed her first birthday. My
One of the “treasures” I found last year when I was cleaning out a cupboard
I wrote a post last year about the difficulties of mail service during the California
I have usually devoted at least one October post to “haunting books,” because October is
As Christmas approaches every year, I worry about all the things to do — send
Smithsonian.com published an article on December 9, 2015, entitled “The History of the Christmas Card,”
One blessing from the current coronavirus stay-at-home order is that I have realized how little
WordPress tells me this is my 900th post on this blog. At an average of
Fireflies don’t live in the western United States, and I never encountered them growing up
Today’s “haunting book” post features two historical novels, Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett, and
I deliberately keep this blog away from politics. I’m told that writing about a hot-button
In November 1978, my husband and I spent Monday through Wednesday of Thanksgiving week interviewing
Last Sunday morning I saw six deer on the fairway behind our house. They were