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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
This past weekend we buried my father-in-law. He was the first grandparent my children and
I recently got new eyeglasses. I’ve needed corrective lenses since I was eight and a
Before I married in November 1977, my mother gave me six dish towels. “Here,” she
The news in 2021 is full of stories of political conflict. Republicans are split between
This past weekend, I finally finished Draft 2 of my work-in-progress. Because of our cross-country
I’ve mentioned before that I called my maternal grandmother Nanny Winnie. How I came to
The big city newspaper when I grew up was The Oregonian, a Portland newspaper. My
I wrote in January 2019 about my hesitation over my husband’s Christmas gift to me
Once again, during the holidays I noticed that my children are now adults, no longer
The new issue of Smithsonian magazine has a report entitled, 101 Objects That Made America.
The sequel to Lead Me Home takes place during the California Gold Rush and the
I have family and friends who span the spectrum in their usage of social media.
I recently discovered that WordPress could show me how many words total I have written
There is nothing connecting the two topics of this post—Pi Day and deliberately bad acting—except
In February 1847, while the Donner party struggled to survive in the snows of the
For the Fourth of July when I was seven, someone gave my brother (who was
I am one of the moderators for a Facebook page called Read Local Kansas City,
My last review of a haunting book for 2016 is of The Summer Before the War,