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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
The Great Migration of 1843 was the first significant group of emigrants to head west.
I posted several years ago how I hated my mother telling me “I don’t know
Perhaps I should have saved this topic for mid-July—thirty-six years after it happened. But since
Here’s a brief Christmas scene from Now I’m Found that takes place on Christmas Day
This week’s haunting book is a novel about a privileged Englishwoman, Ursula Todd, born in
I wrote an earlier post listing many of the things I included in my daughter’s
I’ve written before about our family’s competitiveness in playing games (see here and here). One
Most people pull out their wool sweaters and socks for warmth during winter. Not me.
One of the issues I have dealt with in my novel about the California Gold
Fifteen years ago, in July 1998, our family took a hiking vacation in Switzerland. We
My website is now seven and a half years old, and the blog posts date
One of the pictures I found when I made the slide show of my mother’s
Every once in a while, I go back through old journal volumes to see where
I recently discovered that WordPress could show me how many words total I have written
One of the fun experiences I had during my years at Middlebury College was making
My husband and I have thankfully escaped getting COVID-19 so far (knock on wood), though
I was fortunate to attend the Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc. conference this past weekend. The
In February 1847, while the Donner party struggled to survive in the snows of the