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
Soon I will get to meet my new granddaughter. I have anticipated this moment for
January has been Creativity Month, but I haven’t been very creative. With all the family issues
I’ve written several posts in the past about my children as adults. The last such
Word of the Sutter’s Fort gold discovery reached Oregon in the summer of 1848. Oregon
My Gold Rush posts this year have traced the spread of the news, from the
The Missouri Writers Guild annual conference hasn’t been in Kansas City for a number of
The last time I wrote about my current work-in-progress was in mid-March. At that point,
My husband is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. More than forty years after
One of our family’s go-to recipes is what we call “the squash dish.” I don’t
I wrote recently about my own experience learning to drive. I don’t remember that being
Every so often I look at what WordPress.com tells me about searches that have led
My family is an eclectic mix of Catholics, Protestants, agnostics, and skeptics. Most of the
Even before I met my mother-in-law-to-be, I wrote her. It was shortly before Mother’s Day
As I mentioned in a recent post, the river cruise my husband and I were
One of the pitfalls of skipping kindergarten was that I couldn’t get my driver’s license
On my last trip to visit my parents, my father and I were sorting through
My niece, a second-grader in a Seattle suburb, assigned me homework. She wanted me to
When I was growing up, my mother regularly made pot roast because my father (a