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
Deborah Shouse is one of my writer friends and mentors. For many years, Deborah has
One of the things writers have to do is market their books. This blog is
Building a new house has taught me all sorts of esoteric terms. Our online construction
Today, October 4, is my husband’s birthday. I searched through my post archives and found
My Gold Rush posts this year have traced the spread of the news, from the
I’ve written before about my dentophobia. Unfortunately, I’ve had more dental problems recently. My upper
My husband’s maternal grandmother put tags and notes on many of her possessions, stating who
For the past week or two, the magnolia tree in our front yard has been
I’ve always wanted to be a renaissance woman—to be like the educated class of the
On Sunday, November 8, I hit 30,000 words! The NaNoWriMo pace for that period is
The Missouri Writers Guild annual conference hasn’t been in Kansas City for a number of
As I’ve written before, I am not a fan of green peppers. In fact, I
Among the books I found when I cleaned out my bookcase recently was a two-volume set
The big city newspaper when I grew up was The Oregonian, a Portland newspaper. My
My husband and I need to replace our furnace. If possible, we also want to
As I mentioned in my August 15 post last year, by mid-August the wagon trains
Last year in November I posted about my progress on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month),
One of the fun things about digitizing many (most?) of our photographs last year was