I’ve written before about emigrants crossing the Missouri River at Kanesville, Iowa (now Council Bluffs).
This past week, I finished the first draft of my current work-in-progress. I began this
One of the presents I gave my three-year-old granddaughter for her sister’s birthday earlier this
Today is Wednesday, March 18. As of last Wednesday, March 11, my children and their
I’m trying to find business interests for one of my characters in my next Oregon
The trees at our new house were planted just days before we moved in, late
My mother and her mother both became grandmothers at age forty-eight. My father’s mother was
A week ago when I posted, my father was alive. He was a regular reader
My father’s mother gave me a pearl necklace many years ago. I think the occasion
I wrote recently about my computer travails, which required me to purchase a new desktop
Today is Christmas Eve, and experience tells me that not many people will read my
The History Channel recently reported the anniversary of Jesse James’s birth in Clay County, Missouri,
In 2003, my work group had just completed the Gallup employee engagement survey. One of
I wrote about one road trip from hell—a 2007 trip to New Orleans for my
All writers have times when their writing moves slowly, and I am in one of
I recently received a notification from somewhere in my social media memories that I launched
The Catholic Lenten obligations prohibit eating meat on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays during Lent
For the past week or two, the magnolia tree in our front yard has been
I have discovered one drawback to having my office in the basement of our new
I think it is human nature that we try to make sense of our world,
When I arrived at Middlebury College, I knew no one. The college did a reasonably