
A Quarter Through 2025: Am I Voting “Present”?
On New Year’s Day, I posted that my resolution for 2025 was to vote “present”
On New Year’s Day, I posted that my resolution for 2025 was to vote “present”
My husband and I visited the Peace Arch on the border between the United States
I love classical music, but in recent years, I haven’t had many chances to experience
I am writing this post just a few hours after I dropped my daughter and
As I scrolled through old photographs recently, I came across pictures of my father taken
Readers who are not writers may wonder what “creative nonfiction” is. Many writers wonder also.
There are disadvantages to being the oldest child. Although the theory is that oldest children
Twice in one day last week, I encountered references to people’s reduced ability to focus
I’ve learned most of my history through historical fiction. Not all, but most of it.
We celebrated the major holidays in our family—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, but we didn’t celebrate
By mid-May, the emigrants to Oregon in the 1840s had settled into a routine. They
I hadn’t seen this picture of my mother until I found it in an old
Almost exactly ten years ago, in late September 2005, I attended a three-day diversity training
I went out of town last week with great plans for what I would accomplish.
Last Wednesday morning, I made pumpkin and pecan pies. Wednesday night, my husband made apple
When my husband and I were in our third year of law school, we had
My husband was recently out of town for about ten days, leaving me home alone.
As I mentioned in a recent post, the river cruise my husband and I were
I’ve mentioned before that my son and I are almost complete opposites on the Myers-Briggs
I’ve written before about my husband’s bald cypress tree. We had it chopped down last
Delaware author John Riddle established “I Love To Write Day” in 2002. According to the