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
I’ve written before about the decadent Nadine Spanner chocolate cake. But when my husband and
My latest novel, My Hope Secured, featured scenes of two family Christmases. One Christmas celebration
I’ve written before about the times I built Barbie houses with my father-in-law. The second house
I think it is human nature that we try to make sense of our world,
In my birth family, Santa Claus brought presents to children through their high school years,
One summer day about 38 years ago today, I thought my career would come to
My first post on this blog went live in January 2012, but I didn’t start
In just a few days, my granddaughter will be eighteen months old. I won’t be
In the summer of 1989, when our daughter was four and our son seven, we
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this weekend. I’ve written before about the importance of
Unlike me, my father liked to cook. In fact, he paid part of his way
I discovered as I cleaned out my parents’ house that there was a memory in
I wrote on Monday about the tragedies of Alzheimer’s, which are real and heart-wrenching. But
When my parents lived in Bellevue, Washington, in the 1980s, they owned a small cabin
As of early February 2021, the news is full of stories about vaccines against COVID-19,
A few weeks ago my husband and I went to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
In my novel Now I’m Found, Jenny, one of the lead characters in the book,
There’s been a lot in the news in recent years about infrastructure. Which projects are