
New Lenses: Seeing the World Differently
I wrote after my first cataract surgery about that experience. Later in June, I had

I wrote after my first cataract surgery about that experience. Later in June, I had

By June 1851, the Denny Party had already traveled more than a thousand miles from

This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
In the past few months I’ve read several books that have continued to haunt me
My siblings and I spent much of our holiday vacations playing games. No one in
I didn’t set out to write a series of novels about the Oregon Trail and
I’ve written before about my youngest brother learning his alphabet—how we sent him on reconnoitering
Although many posts on this blog are about my life, I don’t aspire to write

Today is Ash Wednesday, but although I am Catholic, I will not be getting ashes
Fireflies don’t live in the western United States, and I never encountered them growing up

Today is our wedding anniversary, so I am remembering all the anniversaries that have come
As I announced in my newsletter on November 19, Safe Thus Far is now available
In our decluttering plan, I assigned my husband to clean the basement. Most of the
Ever since I began researching the Oregon Trail route for my novel about travel along
I wrote in an earlier post that my husband and I are building a new
My kids and their cousins often visited their mutual grandparents (my in-laws) when they were

I learned recently that the first Wednesday of November (which is today, November 5, 2025)
In the last four months I have replaced two computers and an e-reader. All with

Yesterday I got my car washed. Mind you, many people in Seattle never get their
My husband and I drove to Northwest Arkansas last weekend, just to get away from