
A Third Birthday!
Several weeks ago, my older granddaughter announced to me, with grammatical precision if not ideal

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

My husband was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him
I’ve written several posts in the past about my children as adults. The last such
The 95th celebration of Children’s Book Week begins May 12, 2014. Children’s Book Week is
Through our forty-plus years in Kansas City, my husband and I have taken several vacations
The vast majority of miners during the California Gold Rush were men. The census of

As readers of this blog know, I am a proud alumna of Middlebury College, Class

Sometimes you just have to whine. Or rant. I’m doing some of both today. For
Building a new house has taught me all sorts of esoteric terms. Our online construction

I’ve reached an exciting point in writing my current work-in-progress—I’m about to send the manuscript
My birthday was yesterday. I celebrated sedately, ordering dinner from an Italian restaurant my husband
In the past few months I’ve read several books that have continued to haunt me

I attended the 2017 Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc. conference in Oklahoma City from May 4-6
My husband and I were fortunate to spend a recent weekend in San Diego, California.
A friend recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon. “The ranger told us
When I attended Middlebury College in the mid-1970s, the school had a long weekend without
Later this year my husband and I will celebrate our 35th anniversary. We started dating,

I wrote last month about organizing my photographs so I could have them digitized. Late

I’ve written several times before about setting up new computers and other digital devices. (See

I’ve written before about the journal I have kept for the past twenty years. About