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Several weeks ago, my older granddaughter announced to me, with grammatical precision if not ideal
February 4, 2026
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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
My husband was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him
My daughter chastises me for not documenting her childhood completely in her baby book. She
In just a few days, my granddaughter will be eighteen months old. I won’t be
Join the nation in a moment of silence at 3:00pm on Memorial Day to remember
For our 25th wedding anniversary in 2002, my husband and I went to Aruba. First,
Like A Murder in Time, The Bookseller haunted me because of how the novel deals
My fourth-grade teacher was a rather strict nun whose name I cannot remember. (I think
During the Christmas season, we scurry to find our loved ones unique gifts, suited to
One of my favorite dogs ever has died—my daughter’s dog Langley. Langley has been a
I’ve written several posts in the past about my children as adults. The last such
I’ve mentioned that I found some treasures during a couple of cleaning projects I undertook
On Sunday, November 8, I hit 30,000 words! The NaNoWriMo pace for that period is
As Memorial Day approaches, I remember long summer days of swimming and waterskiing until we
On August 1 and 2, I took a break from the hassles of moving to
I finished the draft of this new novel on Thanksgiving Day. Since then, I’ve been
I spent this past weekend (May 1-3) at the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc., conference in
As I mentioned in my August 15 post last year, by mid-August the wagon trains
Over the Christmas break, I went to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City
I am the latest of a long line of Catholic women who married Protestant men.