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
I don’t usually write about science, because I don’t know much about it. I haven’t
As I wrote last month, the early California gold miners began with placer mining, simply picking
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
In December 2017, a writer friend of mine asked me what my 2018 goals were.
It’s hard to believe my husband and I have been in our new home over
Equipment is supposed to work perfectly, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter what kind of equipment—computers,
We are ahead of pace on snowfall for the season, and the average low temperature
When I first saw the scene in the movie Home Alone where poor little Kevin
Earlier this month I sent the first of what I hope will be regular newsletters
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, linking California to the Eastern United States. But
When I think of my childhood Christmases, I think of going to my grandparents’ home
With everything else going on, I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to
I wrote recently about my daughter’s 8th-grade graduation in 1999. After I wrote that post,
Here in the Midwest, we are experiencing serious flooding this spring. St. Joseph, Missouri, one
I’ve written before about our family’s trips to the Absaroka Ranch in Wyoming, where we
Two years ago in late September, my daughter and I took a trip to Maui—a
A friend and I recently exchanged emails about cooking. Neither of us is the cook