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Requiem for Langley
One of my favorite dogs ever has died—my daughter’s dog Langley. Langley has been a
May 7, 2025
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One of my favorite dogs ever has died—my daughter’s dog Langley. Langley has been a
I wrote recently about setting up my new laptop. One of the first things I
Since moving to Seattle, I’ve been researching some of the early pioneers who settled in
This page contains all the posts from my WordPress.com blog, Story & History: One writer’s
Today, April 25, 2018, would have been my father’s 85th birthday. (He was 52 days
I started a monthly newsletter a year ago, sending out my first email on June
Once the emigrants to Oregon survived the plains and the Rockies, they still had to
Over the Christmas break, I went to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City
I attended a picnic last week. It was a gorgeous day, spent with good food
I happened upon an exhibit of Fred Geary’s woodcuts at the Kansas City Public Library’s
After helping me clean out my parents’ house after my father died, my husband got
I’ve written before about my first doll. I’ve written about my mother’s Storybook Bride doll
My family is an eclectic mix of Catholics, Protestants, agnostics, and skeptics. Most of the
My husband and I have thankfully escaped getting COVID-19 so far (knock on wood), though
The big city newspaper when I grew up was The Oregonian, a Portland newspaper. My
As I mentioned in a recent post, the river cruise my husband and I were
In going through the mementos my parents kept, I’ve discovered another way in which my
My father recently made a huge road trip through the Western United States. One of
My brother and children seem to think they get treated unfairly in this blog, so
When I was a small child, I had an imaginary friend named Ky-Bee-Chee-Bee. To me
On December 30, 2020, I posted my primary writing goals for 2021: 1. Edit and