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
A lot goes on in our family in May. Our daughter’s birthday. Mother’s Day. And,
“The only way to start is just to start – take the plunge.” With these
In past years, each October I have used this blog to review books that I’ve
I’ve written before that my ancestor, Cyrenus Hooker, was the first person murdered in Polk
On a chair in my guest room sit two handmade pillows with cats on them.
February is Library Lovers Month. I come from a family of library lovers, and I
Fifteen years ago, in July 1998, our family took a hiking vacation in Switzerland. We
My daughter has always been a focused individual. I’ve described before her intense effort at
I wrote a few months ago that I started taking piano lessons again, after a
As I’ve written before, I plan to set my next historical novel in Oregon in
As of early February 2021, the news is full of stories about vaccines against COVID-19,
“Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!” ―from
Today, December 6, is St. Nicholas Day, a feast day honoring St. Nicholas, a 4th-century
One of the places that my husband, mother-in-law, and I visited in California in June
I don’t use much scented lotion. I’m allergic to many floral scents, particularly roses and
My husband and I will celebrate our thirty-ninth wedding anniversary soon. We were married just
My latest novel, My Hope Secured, featured scenes of two family Christmases. One Christmas celebration
When I first saw the scene in the movie Home Alone where poor little Kevin