My husband was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him
I recently learned that my two most recent novels, When Heart Shall Fail and A
On January 1, I read a piece by Lauren Jackson in the New York Times’s
I recently learned that my two most recent novels, When Heart Shall Fail and A
Once Oregon City was a thriving town at the end of the Oregon Trail, the
In December 2017, a writer friend of mine asked me what my 2018 goals were.
My mother died on July 4 last year, so I am completing a year of
Today would have been my mother’s 82nd birthday. One of my most popular posts on
Through Sunday, November 22, my total word count is 77,400 words. The NaNoWriMo pace for
My kids and their cousins often visited their mutual grandparents (my in-laws) when they were
For over fifteen years, I’ve been following the Write on the Sound (WOTS) conference sponsored
There are times when I wonder why I keep posting on this blog. Some months
Every once in a while, I go back through old journal volumes to see where
A friend of mine recently emailed me an article from the Mayo Clinic on “popcorn
I’m turning now from haunting books that deal with violence and man’s inhumanity to man
The trees have been gorgeous this autumn in Kansas City. I can’t say it’s been
I’ve mentioned the grueling Barlow Road around the south slope of Mt. Hood before. Barlow
Last year I posted several times about travel along the Oregon Trail in 1847, the
January has been Creativity Month, but I haven’t been very creative. With all the family issues
Even before I met my mother-in-law-to-be, I wrote her. It was shortly before Mother’s Day
My mother had a collection of Storybook dolls when she was a girl. Several of