
Adapting to a New Normal
As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was

As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was

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
In May 1843 – 170 years ago this month – Jesse Applegate and his brothers
I’ve written before about the idyllic summers I spent during my teenage years on Coeur
As I’ve written before, I am not a fan of green peppers. In fact, I
As I reported to readers of my newsletter last week, I completed the rough draft
My husband-to-be and I started dating about a month before my twenty-first birthday. We were
Every so often I look at what WordPress.com tells me about searches that have led
I described my son’s tantrum in my last post, so it’s only fair that in
This past weekend we buried my father-in-law. He was the first grandparent my children and

When I was growing up, my mother regularly made pot roast because my father (a
Recently, a relative sent my husband a picture of his high school graduation day. I’d
I’ve written before about our family’s competitiveness in playing games (see here and here). One
Go Set a Watchman is not a sequel to Lee Harper’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I
August 21 is National Senior Citizens Day. It’s a day set aside to support and
This isn’t a typical Halloween post, but it is about hallowed ground. The original meaning
Kansas City is a driving town. Except for a few corridors, it is difficult to
I wrote last December of a muddled Christmas story about Super-Jesus that was told in
One issue every writer must address is how much time to spend marketing as opposed
My youngest sibling was in kindergarten the year I started college. When I came home