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’ve written several posts about the cruise (see here, here, and here) we took this
This month I’m writing another series of book reviews on “haunting books.” I haven’t read
In my novel Now I’m Found, Jenny, one of the lead characters in the book,
Today, November 26, 2018, is our 41st wedding anniversary. I’ve been on a “forty years
As I look back on my childrearing years, one of the things I’m glad I
I could have titled this post “Tidying Up, Part 2.” But I decided on “Treasures
My first post on this blog went live in January 2012, but I didn’t start
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
I predicted in January of this year, on the tenth anniversary of this blog, that
My mother died on July 4 last year, so I am completing a year of
My youngest sibling was in kindergarten the year I started college. When I came home
I’ve posted about my first Christmas before. Someone in the family—my father or grandfather—was good
For most of the 1979-1980 school year, my parents lived apart. My father had started
During October, I’ve traditionally posted about “haunting books” I’ve read in the past year. This
There are times when I wonder why I keep posting on this blog. Some months
One of the many websites for writers to which I subscribe is the Insecure Writers
I’ve seen several reviews of Barkskins, by Annie Proulx, that compare her book to James
As I mentioned recently, my sister did most of the planning for our Baltic Sea