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
The world is a crazy place in this era of the pandemic. “Social distancing” remains
Now that my husband and I are functional in our new apartment (though not entirely
April 10 is National Siblings Day. Although I have written many posts about siblings—my siblings,
Every year Christmas sneaks up on me. It shouldn’t, I know. It’s always on December
I’ve written before about my love/hate relationship with technology. That post recently showed up on
As the news reports have shown pictures of the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey and
In my last post, I mentioned that I developed some friends during my second grade
As 2014 draws to a close, I want to thank all my readers for their
My mother and her mother both became grandmothers at age forty-eight. My father’s mother was
In the fifteen months since my mother’s death, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering
I’ve written before about the importance of reading in my family when I was growing
As I’ve written before, we didn’t spend many holidays at home when my kids were
As of the end of May, we’ve spent 209 months in the 21st Century (I started
Not everyone will be haunted by The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin, but I was. I
Go Set a Watchman is not a sequel to Lee Harper’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I
As I wrote recently, reading has always been very important to me. I didn’t know when
The third haunting book I’ve read in recent months is Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken
As readers of this blog know, I have included Abigail Scott Duniway, a historical Oregon