I’ve written before about emigrants crossing the Missouri River at Kanesville, Iowa (now Council Bluffs).
This past week, I finished the first draft of my current work-in-progress. I began this
One of the presents I gave my three-year-old granddaughter for her sister’s birthday earlier this
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt, haunts me because I hated it so much. I know
The third haunting book I’ve read in recent months is Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken
Most Octobers I have posted one or more reviews of “haunting books” that I’ve read
As a writer of historical fiction, one of the issues I struggle with is how
The trees at our new house were planted just days before we moved in, late
In the summer of 2015, when my sister and I went through family memorabilia from
Shortly after Christmas last year, my father commented to me that it was the first
I wrote a few weeks ago about problems some readers and I have experienced with
Happy New Year! A year ago, on January 2, 2019, I posted my performance review
I mentioned last week that I left home for college about the time my sister
It apparently caused quite a stir in my parents’ high school when Catholic Mary began
In June 1992, the same month that my kids spent at camp in North Carolina,
On one of the spring vacations my family took, we were in a gift shop
In every family, there are traits and physical features that no one wants to own.
I deliberately keep this blog apolitical, and this post is not meant to be political.
Writing descriptions is not something that comes naturally to me. I much prefer writing dialogue.
When I attended Middlebury College in the mid-1970s, the school had a long weekend without
As I wrote recently, reading has always been very important to me. I didn’t know when