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
When I was a very young, my father made a bookcase. It’s made of a
A friend of mine in Washington State recently posted a picture of huckleberries she had
The last survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake died earlier this month. William Del
Here’s another list of instances when I have been struck by how independent and mature (well,
A few nights ago I was awake in the middle of the night, one of
My husband and I need to replace our furnace. If possible, we also want to
I left Kansas City in mid-March for a two-week trip to Washington State. It was
Today, April 25, 2018, would have been my father’s 85th birthday. (He was 52 days
My current work-in-progress deals in part with domestic violence. The 19th century was a time
In addition to our 35th wedding anniversary, I have another 35th this year – thirty-five
Today, November 26, 2018, is our 41st wedding anniversary. I’ve been on a “forty years
This random photo was taken in December 1986, when our family visited my parents for
As I mentioned in my last post, my granddaughter just passed her first birthday. My
One day during my recent visit to New York, my friend and I walked through
The news reports recently have contained stories about the 2020 U.S. Census not reaching everyone.
In my gratitude list, I mentioned the support of colleagues and mentors as something I
I have written several times about my grandfather’s clock. I have had it in my
A few weeks ago I did something I’ve been wanting to do since March—I went