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This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
June 17, 2026
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This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
Last week, I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The left eye is scheduled
My father used to tell me, “It never rains in the Pacific Northwest.” That was
My husband and I now live in a retirement community. Our apartment has a full
I’m rushing this post a bit, because we didn’t move into our new home until
Readers who are not writers may wonder what “creative nonfiction” is. Many writers wonder also.
I recently learned that my two most recent novels, When Heart Shall Fail and A
As I’ve written before, I plan to set my next historical novel in Oregon in
I was perhaps programmed from early childhood to work for Hallmark Cards, which I did
On Sunday, November 8, I hit 30,000 words! The NaNoWriMo pace for that period is
I’ve written before about the Great Migration of 1843—the first large wagon train along the
I’ve mentioned before that I spent two of my birthdays at Cannon Beach, Oregon—my 12th
December 21 is Short Girl Appreciation Day. I am a short girl—5’1” in my stocking
It seems appropriate that on this Labor Day I am updating you on my most
In a post several years ago, I mentioned that Fort Kearny was relocated from near
When I moved onto campus at Middlebury College in the fall of 1973, I shipped
Once Oregon City was a thriving town at the end of the Oregon Trail, the
My maternal grandfather’s mother, Ada Jane Lewis Hooker, died when my grandfather was still a
There are disadvantages to being the oldest child. Although the theory is that oldest children
The big city newspaper when I grew up was The Oregonian, a Portland newspaper. My
I’ve been through a first round of sorting most of my old photographs now, and