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Treasured Time with Family Visitors
This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
June 17, 2026
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This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
Last week, I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The left eye is scheduled
My father used to tell me, “It never rains in the Pacific Northwest.” That was
I’ve written before that I spent the first thirty years of my life trying not
My mother’s death brought to mind many memories for all her family members. My son
Last year in November I posted about my progress on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month),
I recently loaded the OneDrive app on my Android phone so that I could have
Sunday morning the electricity went out in our house. It seems to happen more and more frequently.
On our recent drive from Washington State to Missouri, my husband and I detoured to
This past weekend, I finally finished Draft 2 of my work-in-progress. Because of our cross-country
In the past few months I’ve read several books that have continued to haunt me
Because of the pandemic, over the past many months my husband and I have been
Much like the current pandemic, the California Gold Rush started at a specific epicenter and
In the summer of 2015, when my sister and I went through family memorabilia from
I wrote five years ago about my first day of work for Hallmark Cards on
I think about my mother’s early signs of dementia a lot in May, because I
I met with my real estate agent for three hours one afternoon last week. She’s
Many family heirlooms—or future heirlooms—have sentimental value because of the stories behind them. But the
In February 2018, when I began writing my current novel, I speculated about what historical
Christmas 1978 was the first Christmas I spent away from my parents’ home. My husband
I’ve always been uncomfortable in hair salons—or “beauty parlors,” as we called them when I