I do not have many African American characters in my books, but I do include
Today is Ash Wednesday, but although I am Catholic, I will not be getting ashes
As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was
WordPress tells me this is my 900th post on this blog. At an average of
It boggled my mind when I realized last week ago that this is the third
One of the Easter vacations my family took when my kids were young was a
This post is about my mother, though not about Mother’s Day. While searching for a
As autumn approaches each year, I think about soup. I will eat soup any time
As I am finishing my current novel, it dawned on me that I have not
My niece, a second-grader in a Seattle suburb, assigned me homework. She wanted me to
Many memories are triggered by milestone anniversaries—things that happened five or ten or twenty-five years
Not everyone will be haunted by The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin, but I was. I
I received Plume, a book of poems by Kathleen Flenniken, from my daughter, who bought
As the news reports have shown pictures of the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey and
On June 25, 1975, for my parents’ twentieth anniversary, I gave them a photographer’s sitting
Today is my sister’s birthday. Regular readers of this blog can figure out which one,
On Father’s Day, of course, I think of my father. And in the summertime, I
My kids and their cousins often visited their mutual grandparents (my in-laws) when they were
I have teamed up with a group of Kansas City area authors to launch a
My husband and I have thankfully escaped getting COVID-19 so far (knock on wood), though
I attended the Historical Novel Society North America conference last week. Unfortunately, I was not