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
It is peach season in Missouri. If it is peach season, it is time for
As I announced in my newsletter on November 19, Safe Thus Far is now available
March and April this year were dreadful months—cold and dreary. Even if we had an
In response to my last email newsletter, one reader wrote me about how her family
I received Plume, a book of poems by Kathleen Flenniken, from my daughter, who bought
I described my son’s tantrum in my last post, so it’s only fair that in
By mid-June, the emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1840s had trekked 650 miles
My brother and children seem to think they get treated unfairly in this blog, so
The last time I wrote about my work-in-progress, I was just sending it out to
I’ve learned most of my history through historical fiction. Not all, but most of it.
When I attended Middlebury College in the mid-1970s, the school had a long weekend without
When I moved onto campus at Middlebury College in the fall of 1973, I shipped
Last year in November I posted about my progress on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month),
At Mass last Sunday, the second reading was from 1 John, and included 1 John
I’m always curious about the reasons other historical fiction writers are drawn to the genre.
Because of the pandemic, over the past many months my husband and I have been
My latest novel, My Hope Secured, featured scenes of two family Christmases. One Christmas celebration
My husband and I moved to a retirement community in Seattle a year ago this