
Two Reunions: Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone
In the last couple of months, I’ve had two mini-reunions with people who were important

In the last couple of months, I’ve had two mini-reunions with people who were important

I’ve been to Volunteer Park several times since we moved to Seattle, but usually I’ve

I wrote a few weeks ago about how AI saved me money by helping me
I am a really good planner and organizer. I don’t say this boastfully, but as
Authors continue to research aspects of their plots throughout the drafting and revising of their
I read the newspaper differently now because I write historical fiction. Articles that I once would
Last year I recounted the story of James Marshall finding a gold nugget at Sutter’s
My last review of a haunting book for 2016 is of The Summer Before the War,
I’m kicking myself, as writers often do. Actually, in every profession I’ve been in to

Through Sunday, November 22, my total word count is 77,400 words. The NaNoWriMo pace for
I wrote recently (see here and here) about sorting my old photographs and taking them
Thirty-five years ago, in the summer of 1979, my husband and I moved to Kansas
By the beginning of June 1848 there were around 2,000 miners in the Sierra Nevada

Now that my daughter is in her mid-thirties, I thought we had passed all the
We celebrated the major holidays in our family—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, but we didn’t celebrate

I wrote an earlier post about my son’s birth. I put his first baby picture

I remember many details about February 12, 1982, thirty-six years ago today. It was my

I love classical music, but in recent years, I haven’t had many chances to experience
September 7, 1973, was my brother’s sixteenth birthday, so yesterday he turned sixty-four. I left
The time has come again for me to focus on technology. It seems every three
I was fortunate to spend several days at Cannon Beach, Oregon, in late July. We