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As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was
February 11, 2026
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As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was
Several weeks ago, my older granddaughter announced to me, with grammatical precision if not ideal
Since I moved to Seattle, I’ve been reading about the city’s early history, when the
One morning earlier this month I read Emily Parnell’s column in The Kansas City Star,
Every so often I thumb through one of my boxes of old photographs. This time
The Kansas City Star has a column called “Snarky in the Suburbs” by Sherry Kuehl,
It’s been over a year since I posted on this topic. In this time of
This post is mostly about The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Oksuka, which my
My son came to visit recently, and while he was here, an old family debate
In Lead Me Home, and again in my about-to-be-published novel Forever Mine, I make frequent
I mentioned in a post a few years back that I saw the Mary Poppins
My husband was the fifth generation in his family born in Saline County, Missouri. After
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt, haunts me because I hated it so much. I know
My husband and I closed on the sale of our house in Kansas City recently.
“Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!” ―from
On Sunday, November 8, I hit 30,000 words! The NaNoWriMo pace for that period is
I’ve written before that my children taught me many lessons about diversity as they grew
I had my second first piano lesson last week. My first first piano lesson was
I’ve written before about the importance of reading in my family when I was growing
By mid-June, the emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1840s had trekked 650 miles
Last Thursday I had a guest post over on A Writer of History, which is