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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
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This is a self-pity post. I’ve had a cold or the flu for the last
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An article in The Wall Street Journal on May 10, 2014, by Michael M. Phillips,
I am one of the moderators for a Facebook page called Read Local Kansas City,
My granddaughter just turned two. Her parents and my husband and I planned a pizza
I have discovered one drawback to having my office in the basement of our new
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My son came to visit recently, and while he was here, an old family debate
A few weeks ago I did something I’ve been wanting to do since March—I went
Several months ago I was cleaning out a drawer that should have been cleaned out
My husband was the fifth generation in his family born in Saline County, Missouri. After
I’ve written before about my husband’s bald cypress tree. We had it chopped down last
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