
What Can I Do with 900 Blog Posts in Scrivener?
I started blogging in January 2012, and other than a few brief hiatuses, I haven’t

I started blogging in January 2012, and other than a few brief hiatuses, I haven’t

Today is the 210th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born

I learned recently that the first Wednesday of November (which is today, November 5, 2025)
“Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!” ―from
Last Thursday I had a guest post over on A Writer of History, which is
Kansas City got hit with a snowstorm last Friday and Saturday. Friday morning I had
I’m hard at work editing my next historical novel, titled Forever Mine: Love Along the
As I try to polish and publish my third historical novel over the next couple
Here in the Midwest, we are experiencing serious flooding this spring. St. Joseph, Missouri, one
The Willamette Valley is wet. That’s what I remember most about the winters when we
I wrote a previous post about an unfortunate situation involving orange juice. There is an

From the start of the month through Sunday, November 15, I wrote over 57,000 words
Do you remember the ridiculous children’s song “Little Bunny Foo Foo”? I’m certain I never

Soon I will get to meet my new granddaughter. I have anticipated this moment for
Here’s another list of instances when I have been struck by how independent and mature (well,
Only my father-in-law and I were at my in-laws’ house late on Christmas Eve 1984.
In junior high and high school, my favorite poem was “Renascence,” by Edna St. Vincent

I am surprised that in five years of writing this blog I have never written
I’m kicking myself, as writers often do. Actually, in every profession I’ve been in to
It’s been awhile since I wrote about my likes and dislikes on social media. (But
After helping me clean out my parents’ house after my father died, my husband got