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My Thoughts on Finishing Another First Draft
This past week, I finished the first draft of my current work-in-progress. I began this
May 20, 2026
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This past week, I finished the first draft of my current work-in-progress. I began this
One of the presents I gave my three-year-old granddaughter for her sister’s birthday earlier this
As I’ve written before, when my daughter was born I thought she was the “icing
Yesterday my son married his long-time girlfriend in a small and lovely ceremony in New
This summer, our outdoor activities might be limited because of the pandemic. When I was
The novel I’m writing now takes place in 1864 Oregon. The Civil War was the
My first exposure to the term “suffragette” was in the song “Sister Suffragette” in the
Shortly after I married my husband, his mother wrote out her recipe for steak soup
WordPress keeps excellent statistics for bloggers, and so I realized recently that today’s post would
The other evening my husband pulled an old throw out of the closet and settled
I’ve always wanted to be a renaissance woman—to be like the educated class of the
As I enter my third year of blogging (my first post was on January 17,
I wrote a post last year about the difficulties of mail service during the California
I’ve written before how much I love the ocean and how I count a year
My story, My Son Made Me Tweet, will appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul:
Writers of historical fiction look for first-hand accounts of the time to give their stories
Last week I had the opportunity to attend an artist’s talk by painter Patricia Streeper
My husband and I have now been in our new home a little more than
I’ve always been uncomfortable in hair salons—or “beauty parlors,” as we called them when I
As I announced on June 1 to readers of my monthly newsletter (fill out the
Ten years ago, in the summer of 2007, my daughter and I went to Copenhagen