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This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
June 17, 2026
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This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
Last week, I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The left eye is scheduled
My father used to tell me, “It never rains in the Pacific Northwest.” That was
During the Christmas season, we scurry to find our loved ones unique gifts, suited to
A new novel raising Thomas Jefferson’s slave mistress to “Founding Mother” is now a Kindle
Heidi Cohen writes a good blog offering Practical Marketing Advice. Her February 13 post, 13
I’ve been reading Janet Burroway’s book, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. I started
As I’ve written before, when my daughter was born I thought she was the “icing
I’ve written before about the two times I broke my left foot (see here and
Here is a scene from Chapter 44 of my novel Now I’m Found, describing a
The importance of rail development in the West is one of the plot lines in
If you want to have an impact on people, you need to tell them a
One morning earlier this month I read Emily Parnell’s column in The Kansas City Star,
In my monthly newsletter, I usually update readers on the status of my work-in-progress, but
One of the things I found in going through my father’s papers was some genealogies
I wrote recently about my computer travails, which required me to purchase a new desktop
In my novel Now I’m Found, Jenny, one of the lead characters in the book,
I wrote a poem several years back about my mother’s hands. Here it is: Heredity
My new work-in-progress takes place in 1851. It is another story of emigrants traveling from
On Father’s Day, of course, I think of my father. And in the summertime, I
My husband and I just returned from a Viking cruise on the Viking Orion through