My current work-in-progress is another historical novel set along the Oregon Trail, this one in
Spring is supposed to be the season when the weather turns milder—when the frigid temperatures
Last week I wrote about marching forth, and today I’m writing about springing forward. Daylight
My father died five years ago yesterday, on January 5, 2015. His death was sudden—I’d
I attended the 2017 Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc. conference in Oklahoma City from May 4-6
A few years after we moved to Kansas City, my husband bought a sailing canoe.
In May 2017, I attended the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. conference in Oklahoma City. I’ve
I have finally published A Life of Joy, the seventh and last book in my
I wrote a few months ago that I started taking piano lessons again, after a
I’ve always wanted to be a renaissance woman—to be like the educated class of the
A friend and I recently exchanged emails about cooking. Neither of us is the cook
One of the Easter vacations my family took when my kids were young was a
A friend recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon. “The ranger told us
I’ve written before that my paternal grandfather, Laverne Ernst Claudson, was the grandparent I knew
My husband and I will celebrate our thirty-ninth wedding anniversary soon. We were married just
There’s an old nursery rhyme that attributes character traits (or fortunes—the interpretation varies) to children
One of the problems I’ve had to deal with in my soon-to-be-published novel, Now I’m
During the Christmas season, we scurry to find our loved ones unique gifts, suited to
Today, December 6, is St. Nicholas Day, a feast day honoring St. Nicholas, a 4th-century
I wrote five years ago about my first day of work for Hallmark Cards on
I’ve lived at both ends of the Oregon Trail. I grew up in eastern Washington