
Treasured Time with Family Visitors
This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are

This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are

Last week, I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The left eye is scheduled

My father used to tell me, “It never rains in the Pacific Northwest.” That was
The short answer to why usually I ask questions at the end of my posts
January has been Creativity Month, but I haven’t been very creative. With all the family issues
I’ve written before about the odd things that can trigger memory. I had another such experience
Kansas City is home to the National World War I Museum and Memorial, which is,
In June 1992, the same month that my kids spent at camp in North Carolina,
I’ve always wanted to be a renaissance woman—to be like the educated class of the

Equipment is supposed to work perfectly, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter what kind of equipment—computers,
I wrote on July 15 about the Oregon emigrants’ experience sight-seeing at Ice Slough in

I recently reread my journal from December 2002, trying to find the exact dates we’d
The emigrants to Oregon found many scenic wonders along the way. One of those wonders

Through Sunday, November 22, my total word count is 77,400 words. The NaNoWriMo pace for
In my novel Now I’m Found, Jenny, one of the lead characters in the book,
I’ve written before about the importance of old newspapers in my research for my novels
Most years about this time I get frantic over Christmas preparations. This year is particularly
A year ago, I showed readers the cover of Lead Me Home, the first book

Some weeks glide by, almost without notice. Others pack a punch, pitching and tossing like
I’ve written before about the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. It is a wonderful museum,