Remembering last week’s Thanksgiving celebration brings a smile to my face. I think the memories
Today is our wedding anniversary, so I am remembering all the anniversaries that have come
I started blogging in January 2012, and other than a few brief hiatuses, I haven’t
I was surprised to get a notice from WordPress.com recently congratulating me on my 9th
As I write my fourth historical novel about the West, I’m finding more and more
I have mentioned before that my mother has Alzheimer’s. The last few years have been
A few years after we moved to Kansas City, my husband bought a sailing canoe.
My husband and I are creatures of habit when it comes to breakfast. I usually
As I wrote in my last post about the Oregon Trail, the emigrants wanted to
Smithsonian.com published an article on December 9, 2015, entitled “The History of the Christmas Card,”
Last week I shoveled our driveway and walks three times in one week. Kansas City’s
My husband and I are starting to think about what to hang on the walls
My husband and I moved to a retirement community in Seattle a year ago this
On a LinkedIn writing group board recently, someone asked how to write a scene in
Those of you who have read my story “Competitive Yoga” in Chicken Soup for the
I’ve written several times before about setting up new computers and other digital devices. (See
I wrote a few months ago that I started taking piano lessons again, after a
Now that my daughter is in her mid-thirties, I thought we had passed all the
In Lead Me Home, and again in my about-to-be-published novel Forever Mine, I make frequent
On my recent trip to Seattle, I went to the Museum of History and Industry
As I announced last week to subscribers to my newsletter, Forever Mine is now available—just