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
In recent weeks, my Microsoft OneDrive memory feed has reminded me of our move into
My granddaughter just turned two. Her parents and my husband and I planned a pizza
In addition to remembering your loved ones on this Memorial Day, perhaps you should consider
One of the story lines in the novel I am working on now involves a
Babies and dogs are good listeners. Even when they aren’t paying attention, it is really
I was fortunate to spend several days at Cannon Beach, Oregon, in late July. We
I wrote last week about National Library Week, and I announced that the Mid-Continent Public
As autumn approaches each year, I think about soup. I will eat soup any time
I wrote last month about organizing my photographs so I could have them digitized. Late
Before we moved into our current home in 2019, I did a lot of cleaning
I recently received a notice about my fortieth high school reunion this fall. Fortieth!!! How
My writing goal for the summer was to finish an edit of my second Oregon
In all the years we’ve been married, my husband and I have never spent Christmas
I had no good ideas for a post today, so as I sometimes do, I
Here’s a (sort of) Christmas story I’ve never posted before. I wrote it for a
Heidi Cohen writes a good blog offering Practical Marketing Advice. Her February 13 post, 13
This picture of me and my brother was one of my mother’s favorites. It was
I’ve written about panning for gold and rockers and Long Toms. Inevitably, as the search