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
This Saturday, March 4, 2017, marks the 40th anniversary of the first date my husband
In my novel Now I’m Found, Jenny, one of the lead characters in the book,
It’s about time to start Christmas shopping, if the store windows are any gauge. Have
My current work-in-progress has a murder in it. I won’t say any more than that
The world is a crazy place in this era of the pandemic. “Social distancing” remains
Since I moved to Seattle, I’ve been reading about the city’s early history, when the
I’m always curious about the reasons other historical fiction writers are drawn to the genre.
My husband and I didn’t take too many summer vacations at my parents’ home when
My last post contained some pictures I found as “treasures” from my cleaning projects. This
I’ve written before about the importance of old newspapers in my research for my novels
Because the emigrants in my first Oregon Trail novel traveled between April and October, I
One of the downsides of listing our house for sale has been the need to
I hate the weeks leading up to April 15 when I have to prepare and
I am writing this post just a few hours after I dropped my daughter and
When I was in second grade or so, my class sang the old song, “My
As I am finishing my current novel, it dawned on me that I have not
My parents were married in June 1955, after about seven years of dating—they’d met as
The emigrants who traveled the Oregon Trail arrived in the Willamette Valley in late fall,