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
My husband was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him
In addition to remembering your loved ones on this Memorial Day, perhaps you should consider
Last year I recounted the story of James Marshall finding a gold nugget at Sutter’s
One of the things I love about winter is peppermint ice cream. I’m not a
I never knew my great-grandmother Cecelia Ryan Strachan, my maternal grandmother’s mother. In fact, Cecelia
Last weekend, I was able to attend the virtual version of the Historical Novel Society
Before I married in November 1977, my mother gave me six dish towels. “Here,” she
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
The vast majority of miners during the California Gold Rush were men. The census of
Note to readers: Today I’m sharing a guest post by Beth Lyon Barnett, which she
I hope your holiday celebrations have been filled with magic moments – moments you want
Last week I wrote about an emergency sewing project (putting my daughter’s name on her
No, my dad isn’t Robert DeNiro, but we did have our own version of “Meet
As the saying goes, nothing is certain but death and taxes. My father-in-law died this
I am the latest of a long line of Catholic women who married Protestant men.
I had a boss once who always knew what percent of the year had already
A staple recipe in our household is Old-Fashioned Green Beans. They’re easy to make, and
I’ve written before about the family hike we took in Switzerland in 1998 when my