
My Thoughts on Finishing Another First Draft
This past week, I finished the first draft of my current work-in-progress. I began this

This past week, I finished the first draft of my current work-in-progress. I began this

One of the presents I gave my three-year-old granddaughter for her sister’s birthday earlier this

As I’ve written before, when my daughter was born I thought she was the “icing
As 2014 draws to a close, I want to thank all my readers for their

Every once in a while, I go back through old journal volumes to see where

I’ve written before about the journal I have kept for the past twenty years. About
As I’ve written before, I am not a fan of green peppers. In fact, I
I predicted in January of this year, on the tenth anniversary of this blog, that

On June 25, 1975, for my parents’ twentieth anniversary, I gave them a photographer’s sitting
I started kindergarten in Corvallis, Oregon, in September 1961, when I was five-and-a-half. I was
This coming Sunday, September 13, is Grandparents Day. I was searching for a topic involving
Sometimes, I link to posts from this blog in my monthly newsletter. And sometimes, I
This past weekend we buried my father-in-law. He was the first grandparent my children and

ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) programs are the subject of many media articles and
As I mentioned in a recent post, the river cruise my husband and I were

I wrote last week that I had planned a post about taxes. It would have
Through our forty-plus years in Kansas City, my husband and I have taken several vacations
June is a good month for travel. Most places are not yet too hot, yet
As we begin the new year, I’ve been looking back at my life. From time
For the past week or two, the magnolia tree in our front yard has been

This is a self-pity post. I’ve had a cold or the flu for the last