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Adapting to a New Normal
As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was
February 11, 2026
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As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was
Several weeks ago, my older granddaughter announced to me, with grammatical precision if not ideal
Since I moved to Seattle, I’ve been reading about the city’s early history, when the
For my husband, the mark of adulthood was ownership of a toaster oven. He’d spent
At Mass last Sunday, the second reading was from 1 John, and included 1 John
My daughter went to an all-girls high school. One of my favorite events of the
In my research into the California Gold Rush, I’ve read about prospectors who struck it
I mentioned in an earlier post that I wrestled with whether to set my Oregon
My son, my first child, turns forty in a few days. It certainly does not
I’ve written before about the time that Santa came to visit my brother and me
The Of Books and Nooks authors—all of whom are Kansas City area authors—are teaming up
The trees at our new house were planted just days before we moved in, late
It’s hard not to be haunted by any book about the Nazi death camps. Lilac
I had to deal with a financial problem the other day, right in the middle
As I’ve written, I am hard at work this year editing my historical novel about
Last month my husband and I spent an hour or so at the Nelson-Adkins Museum
In my last post, I mentioned that I developed some friends during my second grade
The Catholic Lenten obligations prohibit eating meat on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays during Lent
A month or two ago I was working on the cover for my novel about
I was fortunate to spend several days at Cannon Beach, Oregon, in late July. We
The fictional family in my work-in-progress lives in a large house in Portland, Oregon. They