I’ve written before about emigrants crossing the Missouri River at Kanesville, Iowa (now Council Bluffs).
This past week, I finished the first draft of my current work-in-progress. I began this
One of the presents I gave my three-year-old granddaughter for her sister’s birthday earlier this
I wrote in my last post about one of my book clubs, the one I
I wrote last year about attending the writing conference at Johnson County Library. I was
My website is now seven and a half years old, and the blog posts date
I’m in the final steps of preparing my novel, My Hope Secured, for publication. I
For those of you not familiar with WordPress, you probably don’t understand the title of
I wrote a few weeks ago about problems some readers and I have experienced with
My husband and I recently returned from a trip to South Dakota. I’d never been
In our decluttering plan, I assigned my husband to clean the basement. Most of the
My daughter went to an all-girls high school. One of my favorite events of the
I’ve written before about family myths (see here and here). A recent family reunion brought more
When I was growing up, my mother regularly made pot roast because my father (a
On December 30, 2020, I posted my primary writing goals for 2021: 1. Edit and
Last year in November I posted about my progress on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month),
It apparently caused quite a stir in my parents’ high school when Catholic Mary began
The trees at our new house were planted just days before we moved in, late
Even before I met my mother-in-law-to-be, I wrote her. It was shortly before Mother’s Day
My wedding anniversary is tomorrow, November 26, so for this month’s post on life during
While he was visiting recently, my son posted a series of photos on Instagram with