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 only recall one true surprise party that anyone threw for me. My spouse has
My current work-in-progress takes place mostly in the Oregon City area, beginning in October 1850.
Forty years ago today, September 4, 1979, I started working for Hallmark Cards. It was
I recently learned a surprising factoid: Today, February 4, is Homemade Soup Day, even though January is
I had my second first piano lesson last week. My first first piano lesson was
It’s hard to believe my husband and I have been in our new home over
Yesterday I got my car washed. Mind you, many people in Seattle never get their
Last weekend, I was able to attend the virtual version of the Historical Novel Society
Before my maternal grandfather, a taciturn businessman from Oregon, married my grandmother, he allegedly told
A friend recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon. “The ranger told us
I’ve written before about my love/hate relationship with technology. That post recently showed up on
My husband-to-be and I started dating about a month before my twenty-first birthday. We were
One of my tasks before my mother’s recent funeral was to put together a slide
I mentioned last year that I found many “treasures” when I cleaned out some cupboards.
I attended the Historical Novel Society North America conference last week. Unfortunately, I was not
As I write this, I am visiting family in Washington State, not too far from
In my monthly newsletter, I usually update readers on the status of my work-in-progress, but
I wrote in January 2019 about my hesitation over my husband’s Christmas gift to me