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
My maternal grandfather’s mother, Ada Jane Lewis Hooker, died when my grandfather was still a
Last Thursday I had a guest post over on A Writer of History, which is
I have finally published A Life of Joy, the seventh and last book in my
This random photo was taken in December 1986, when our family visited my parents for
I posted last year about Abigail Duniway, a historical figure I found while researching Safe
I’ve been reading Janet Burroway’s book, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. I started
I remember reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith
One of the earliest books that I remember my mother reading to me was The
I thought about only including historical fiction in my “haunting books” this year, but a
I’ve been thinking a lot about walking recently, because of my daughter’s broken leg. Her
One summer day about 38 years ago today, I thought my career would come to
“The only way to start is just to start – take the plunge.” With these
Using social media takes a lot of time. Some of it is wasted time, some
My son says that when he lived in New York several years ago I told
As I wrote last month, the California Gold Rush began in late January 1848 when
As I noted in a 2015 post, I started using an accountant to prepare our
A lot goes on in our family in May. Our daughter’s birthday. Mother’s Day. And,
I hadn’t seen this picture of my mother until I found it in an old