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
I’ve written about panning for gold and rockers and Long Toms. Inevitably, as the search
My last review of a haunting book for 2016 is of The Summer Before the War,
For the past ten years, I have worked as an election worker in my precinct,
A few nights ago I was awake in the middle of the night, one of
I’ve written before about spring vacations our family took when our kids were small—how I
Like A Murder in Time, The Bookseller haunted me because of how the novel deals
January has been Creativity Month, but I haven’t been very creative. With all the family issues
Although I prefer the ocean, I enjoy being in the mountains, too. Mountains show us
The trees have been gorgeous this autumn in Kansas City. I can’t say it’s been
I don’t use much scented lotion. I’m allergic to many floral scents, particularly roses and
The third haunting book I’ve read in recent months is Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken
As I enter my third year of blogging (my first post was on January 17,
My husband-to-be and I started dating about a month before my twenty-first birthday. We were
I recently returned from my first out-of-state trip since the pandemic began. Actually, it was
Long before the lemon juice incident or the orange juice incident came the grape juice
If you’re looking for a small Mother’s Day present, try my book “Family Recipe: Sweet
Although pioneer journals often mention “circling the wagons,” it is not at all certain that
Last month I went to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City to see