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
When I went away to college at age seventeen, I took my mother’s college trunk
I’ve written several posts in the past about my children as adults. The last such
This wasn’t the post I intended to write today. But in the last couple of
It is peach season in Missouri. If it is peach season, it is time for
Before my maternal grandfather, a taciturn businessman from Oregon, married my grandmother, he allegedly told
On January 1, I read a piece by Lauren Jackson in the New York Times’s
My husband and I spent Christmas by ourselves this year. Most of our 46 Christmases
After thirty-four years in our current home, my husband and I have started looking for
I first became aware of gender differences when I was about six or seven. I
My website is now seven and a half years old, and the blog posts date
A few weeks ago I had to write a synopsis of my current work-in-progress to
I’ve had a really hard time making progress on the first draft of my current
Every once in a while, I go back through old journal volumes to see where
This post is mostly about The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Oksuka, which my
I have been blogging regularly since early 2012. In over six years, I think I
I’ve written several posts about childhood trips to visit my grandparents in Pacific Grove, California.
Once the emigrants to Oregon survived the plains and the Rockies, they still had to
Building a new house has taught me all sorts of esoteric terms. Our online construction