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
One scent that brings my childhood to mind is that of Vicks VapoRub. When I
I did not plan to write this week about losing my parents—that’s a subject I’ve
It’s a scary time for me right now—I’ve sent my current manuscript out to the
I first became aware of gender differences when I was about six or seven. I
There is a tradition that says that when one wants to sell a house, one
When I was a very young, my father made a bookcase. It’s made of a
Thanksgiving is behind us now, but just barely. I was thinking this past holiday weekend
Most of us who have studied American history are aware of the Forty-Niners—those intrepid souls
One of the “treasures” I found last year when I was cleaning out a cupboard
My website is now seven and a half years old, and the blog posts date
A few weeks ago my husband and I went to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
One thing that surprises me as I research the settlement of the American West is
Now that we are well into June, most schools across the nation are out, and
I’ve written before about the importance of reading in my family when I was growing
Many years ago, my work group and I took the Gallup StrengthFinders survey. The theory
I’ve blogged about some boring topics related to my research for my Oregon Trail and
I’ve written before that my paternal grandfather, Laverne Ernst Claudson, was the grandparent I knew