This past weekend, I finally finished Draft 2 of my work-in-progress. Because of our cross-country
Now that my husband and I are functional in our new apartment (though not entirely
This blog was on hiatus for a little longer than I expected. Followers of my
This month I’m writing another series of book reviews on “haunting books.” I haven’t read
March is National Reading Awareness Month. I’ve written before about how important reading has been in
This past week, while I’ve been caring for my daughter with a broken leg, I’ve
I wrote in my last post about forgetting my laptop when I went to visit
I posted several years ago how I hated my mother telling me “I don’t know
As I research my historical novels, I often refer to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s History of
By WordPress’s calculations, this is my 500th post. I’ve been blogging on this site for
Last year in November I posted about my progress on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month),
One of the issues I have dealt with in my novel about the California Gold
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt, haunts me because I hated it so much. I know
On June 25, 1975, for my parents’ twentieth anniversary, I gave them a photographer’s sitting
Last month I wrote about reopenings. Those have continued apace, and my life is slowly
Almost exactly ten years ago, in late September 2005, I attended a three-day diversity training
Forgive me one more post on NaNoWriMo. Now that it’s over, I’ve been asking myself
My parents were married in June 1955, after about seven years of dating—they’d met as
I’ve written before about the Great Migration of 1843—the first large wagon train along the
I mentioned in a post several years ago that my mother had potty-trained my son
As I mentioned recently, my sister did most of the planning for our Baltic Sea