
Lessons Learned from a Four-Week Hospital Stay
My husband was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him

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
In the summer of 1989, when our daughter was four and our son seven, we
It apparently caused quite a stir in my parents’ high school when Catholic Mary began
I am so pleased to announce that my latest historical novel, My Hope Secured: Love
One of my tasks before my mother’s recent funeral was to put together a slide

Since moving to Seattle, I’ve been researching some of the early pioneers who settled in
As soon as I heard about it, I wanted to see the Plains Indians special

Shortly before Christmas, a friend and I met at the Nelson Atkins Museum for lunch
It just so happened that last Wednesday, I read two articles about when and why

Because of a personal commitment that will consume my time for the next few weeks,
I hadn’t seen this picture of my mother until I found it in an old
On Saturday, March 2, 2019, other family members and I attended the Friends of Arrow

When I was born, my parents owned a dog named Punky. I’ve seen pictures of
My daughter is visiting at the moment, and she brought her dog Langley. I am
It’s about time to start Christmas shopping, if the store windows are any gauge. Have
A few months ago I wrote a post about my father telling me I should
As I continue to research and edit my work-in-progress about the early years of the
I think about my mother’s early signs of dementia a lot in May, because I
I happened upon an exhibit of Fred Geary’s woodcuts at the Kansas City Public Library’s