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’m kicking myself, as writers often do. Actually, in every profession I’ve been in to
I wish I knew more about plotting a novel. It’s one of the reasons I
In an earlier post, I told one of my favorite stories about my husband’s role
We don’t know what will suddenly bring a dormant memory to consciousness. For Proust, it
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this weekend. I’ve written before about the importance of
I mentioned in an earlier post that I wrestled with whether to set my Oregon
I’ve described before some of the problems I’ve faced because my parents decided to call
I’ve written before about my grandfather’s clock—how it formed a part of my childhood, first
In the summer of 2015, when my sister and I went through family memorabilia from
I wrote last time about Marshall, Missouri. Marshall does have one claim to fame—it was
Deborah Shouse is one of my writer friends and mentors. For many years, Deborah has
National Siblings Day was a few days ago on April 10. I looked for a
The main plot and some of the sub-plots of my work-in-progress revolve around relationships between
If you want to know what it’s like to live with someone with Alzheimer’s Disease,
I happened upon an exhibit of Fred Geary’s woodcuts at the Kansas City Public Library’s
Last year on the Fourth of July, my son was traveling in the Netherlands. He
My husband and I were fortunate to spend a recent weekend in San Diego, California.