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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
My husband and I visited the Peace Arch on the border between the United States
The emigrants who traveled the Oregon Trail arrived in the Willamette Valley in late fall,
This post is mostly about The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Oksuka, which my
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in October away from home visiting relatives. The
I only spent one Christmas at my maternal grandparents’ home in Pacific Grove, California. That
Every year Christmas sneaks up on me. It shouldn’t, I know. It’s always on December
On Monday, I wrote about the Oregon Trail emigrants choosing their leaders on the Kansas
I’ve recently read two articles that made me think about the importance of telling our
I wrote back in October 2015 about the Oregon land laws in the 1840s, and
I deliberately try to keep this blog apolitical. Yet, the theme of this blog is
A high-school friend of mine had only one older sister and didn’t understand the pains
Today, November 26, 2018, is our 41st wedding anniversary. I’ve been on a “forty years
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
Only my father-in-law and I were at my in-laws’ house late on Christmas Eve 1984.
I recently returned from another visit to see family on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s a
I hadn’t intended to write about a random photo today. I was looking for a
I’ve been meaning to write the story of how I came to pierce my ears,
It’s a scary time for me right now—I’ve sent my current manuscript out to the