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
I attended the 2017 Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc. conference in Oklahoma City from May 4-6
I’ve written before about the family hike we took in Switzerland in 1998 when my
I reported earlier in the month that my husband gave me an Instant Pot for
One summer day about 38 years ago today, I thought my career would come to
I’ve been meaning to write the story of how I came to pierce my ears,
This blog is about story and history — my story, the stories in my historical
I’ve mentioned before that I can’t remember not knowing how to read. I learned to
I went out of town last week with great plans for what I would accomplish.
At Mass last Sunday, the second reading was from 1 John, and included 1 John
I always assumed I would walk down the aisle at my wedding to the strains
Both my dad and my mother’s father took lots of pictures over the years. As
My father died five years ago yesterday, on January 5, 2015. His death was sudden—I’d
The last survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake died earlier this month. William Del
Rickover was the first dog my husband and I owned together. I’ve mentioned Rickover before
A few weeks ago my husband and I went to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
I’ve written before about spring vacations our family took when our kids were small—how I
Earlier this month I had a day by myself in Topeka, which is just over