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Moving Along on My Work-in-Progress
Last November, I set a goal to work on my novel every day until the
January 15, 2025
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Last November, I set a goal to work on my novel every day until the
I had to make some hard decisions when we moved last fall. I had several
Here we are—another year begins. I start 2025 with both hope and trepidation. Hope, because
My husband was recently out of town for about ten days, leaving me home alone.
I’ve written before about our family’s competitiveness in playing games (see here and here). One
Last Wednesday morning, I made pumpkin and pecan pies. Wednesday night, my husband made apple
On the first day of every month, I send out a newsletter to subscribers. Like
Now that my daughter is in her mid-thirties, I thought we had passed all the
Fifteen years ago, in July 1998, our family took a hiking vacation in Switzerland. We
I wrote a few months ago that I started taking piano lessons again, after a
For someone who is a good planner, I’m finding this week a little overwhelming. As I was
My latest novel, My Hope Secured, featured scenes of two family Christmases. One Christmas celebration
For most of the forty-seven Christmases my husband and I have been married, we have
Last week my critique group lost a member, Norman Ledgin. Ninety-year-old Norm had been ailing
1. You find a long list of alcoholic beverages in your car in your son’s
I launched my blog “Story & History: One writer’s journey through life and time” in
This week I have a guest post on Write Brain Trust that discusses how I formatted
Go Set a Watchman is not a sequel to Lee Harper’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I
As Christmas approaches every year, I worry about all the things to do — send
Although pioneer journals often mention “circling the wagons,” it is not at all certain that
My maternal grandmother gave me an amethyst pin many years ago. I don’t remember exactly