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The Denny Party: Final Miles to Portland
After four months and nearly 2,000 miles on the Oregon Trail, the Denny Party reached
August 26, 2026
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After four months and nearly 2,000 miles on the Oregon Trail, the Denny Party reached
Twenty-one years ago, in August 2005, my family gathered to celebrate my parents’ 50th wedding
Today is the 175th anniversary of the Singer sewing machine. On August 12, 1851, American
My husband was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him
My husband and I now live in a retirement community. Our apartment has a full
During October, I’ve traditionally posted about “haunting books” I’ve read in the past year. This
As I wrote recently, spring came earlier to Washington State this year than to Missouri.
One summer day about 38 years ago today, I thought my career would come to
For the past ten years, I have worked as an election worker in my precinct,
I wrote last December of a muddled Christmas story about Super-Jesus that was told in
I deliberately keep this blog away from politics. I’m told that writing about a hot-button
I’ve written before about viewing exhibits at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
I first visited Missouri in early June 1977, before my now-husband and I were married.
Thirty-five years ago, in the summer of 1979, my husband and I moved to Kansas
Some weeks glide by, almost without notice. Others pack a punch, pitching and tossing like
Both my mother and my father grew up in families consisting of two siblings—an older
A friend recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon. “The ranger told us
December 21 is Short Girl Appreciation Day. I am a short girl—5’1” in my stocking
The emigrants who traveled the Oregon Trail arrived in the Willamette Valley in late fall,
In my about-to-be-published novel, My Hope Secured, several scenes take place in or around the