This past weekend, I finally finished Draft 2 of my work-in-progress. Because of our cross-country
Now that my husband and I are functional in our new apartment (though not entirely
This blog was on hiatus for a little longer than I expected. Followers of my
Unlike me, my father liked to cook. In fact, he paid part of his way
This week’s haunting book is the story of a family in turmoil. The protagonist is
On my recent trip to Seattle, I went to the Museum of History and Industry
Fireflies don’t live in the western United States, and I never encountered them growing up
I’ve always been fascinated by seashells. I think it goes along with my love of
My husband and I were just in Southern California and spent most of our time
I’ve written before about the importance of reading in my family when I was growing
Here is a scene from Chapter 44 of my novel Now I’m Found, describing a
This wasn’t the post I intended to write today. But in the last couple of
This coming Sunday, September 13, is Grandparents Day. I was searching for a topic involving
This random photo was taken in December 1986, when our family visited my parents for
My father liked to cook, but my mother did not. Cooking was required of a
When I was a small child, I had an imaginary friend named Ky-Bee-Chee-Bee. To me
I wrote back in October 2015 about the Oregon land laws in the 1840s, and
As I’ve written before, I plan to set my next historical novel in Oregon in
I’ve written before that my children taught me many lessons about diversity as they grew
Because of our move, July was a lost cause on editing my current work in
Today would have been my mother’s 82nd birthday. One of my most popular posts on