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My Thoughts on Finishing Another First Draft
This past week, I finished the first draft of my current work-in-progress. I began this
May 20, 2026
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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
When I went away to college at age seventeen, I took my mother’s college trunk
One of the joys of writing is getting feedback from readers. Of course, the feedback
By mid-August the emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1840s had passed Fort Hall.
To my surprise, this is my 400th post, which seems worthy of mention. I last
In August 1985, thirty-five years ago this month, I returned to work after my second
Last year I wrote about the banana cream pie I made for my father one
My daughter was born the day before Mother’s Day. Some years her birthday has been
Happy New Year! A year ago, on January 2, 2019, I posted my performance review
Perhaps it seems odd that I just announced the publication of my last novel, My
I keep two fortune cookie messages on my desk. They were in cookies I got
Making a living was important to pioneers on the frontier, just as it has been
I attended the Historical Novel Society North America conference last week. Unfortunately, I was not
In recent weeks I’ve been following all my Facebook friends’ pictures of their children headed
WordPress tells me this is my 900th post on this blog. At an average of
Last week my critique group lost a member, Norman Ledgin. Ninety-year-old Norm had been ailing
I’ve been stuck a few times while writing my historical novels. My characters got into
I thumbed through a photo album of my son’s baby pictures, trying to think of