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
This picture of me and my brother was one of my mother’s favorites. It was
As I am finishing my current novel, it dawned on me that I have not
Many of the forest fires raging in the West this summer are not far from
I have teamed up with a group of Kansas City area authors to launch a
Last month my husband and I spent an hour or so at the Nelson-Adkins Museum
My father died five years ago yesterday, on January 5, 2015. His death was sudden—I’d
It’s the middle of tax preparation season, a time of year I hate. I am
Here’s a brief Christmas scene from Now I’m Found that takes place on Christmas Day
I received Plume, a book of poems by Kathleen Flenniken, from my daughter, who bought
Like A Murder in Time, The Bookseller haunted me because of how the novel deals
One of the problems I’ve had to deal with in my soon-to-be-published novel, Now I’m
I’ve done a fair amount of sightseeing in Seattle, but I’d never been to the
Not everyone will be haunted by The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin, but I was. I
Kansas City is a driving town. Except for a few corridors, it is difficult to
When I was a very young, my father made a bookcase. It’s made of a
I talked to a friend the other day and found her in the process of
I mentioned in a post a few years back that I saw the Mary Poppins
October is National Family History Month—a month for those with an interest in genealogy to