My current work-in-progress is another historical novel set along the Oregon Trail, this one in
Spring is supposed to be the season when the weather turns milder—when the frigid temperatures
Last week I wrote about marching forth, and today I’m writing about springing forward. Daylight
Last week I wrote about an emergency sewing project (putting my daughter’s name on her
As I sat in the dentist’s office a couple of weeks ago waiting for the
Now that my daughter is in her mid-thirties, I thought we had passed all the
As I announced in my newsletter on November 19, Safe Thus Far is now available
There’s an old nursery rhyme that attributes character traits (or fortunes—the interpretation varies) to children
Here’s a (sort of) Christmas story I’ve never posted before. I wrote it for a
My son, my first child, turns forty in a few days. It certainly does not
I’ve written before about my love/hate relationship with technology. That post recently showed up on
Yesterday I got my car washed. Mind you, many people in Seattle never get their
Today, December 6, is St. Nicholas Day, a feast day honoring St. Nicholas, a 4th-century
Some of my novels have followed historical events quite closely, and others are almost entirely
After my rant last week about having to cook, which I admit is a trifling
Many years ago, my work group and I took the Gallup StrengthFinders survey. The theory
When my brother and I visited our grandparents in Pacific Grove, California, they always took
Last weekend, I was able to attend the virtual version of the Historical Novel Society
One of the biggest reasons my husband and I chose to move to Seattle was
My husband and I just returned from a Viking cruise on the Viking Orion through
I’ve never been a bird watcher. I don’t really care about counting the number of