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
In May 1843 – 170 years ago this month – Jesse Applegate and his brothers
It’s about time to start Christmas shopping, if the store windows are any gauge. Have
My father liked to cook, but my mother did not. Cooking was required of a
December 21 is Short Girl Appreciation Day. I am a short girl—5’1” in my stocking
Sometimes, I link to posts from this blog in my monthly newsletter. And sometimes, I
A few weeks ago my husband decided to give away all his unused audio equipment
It’s almost here! My novel, Lead Me Home, will be out later this fall. For
My mother and her mother both became grandmothers at age forty-eight. My father’s mother was
The importance of rail development in the West is one of the plot lines in
As I looked through the photographs my father digitized, I came across this picture of
One morning earlier this month I read Emily Parnell’s column in The Kansas City Star,
This is a self-pity post. I’ve had a cold or the flu for the last
My husband and I recently were fortunate to have visits from our two adult children.
I am not a cook, and I don’t aspire to be one. But like many
As I’ve written before, I am not a fan of green peppers. In fact, I
I mentioned in a post several years ago that my mother had potty-trained my son
As autumn approaches each year, I think about soup. I will eat soup any time
I know it is un-American, but I do not like orange juice. The pulp in