This past weekend, I finally finished Draft 2 of my work-in-progress. Because of our cross-country
Now that my husband and I are functional in our new apartment (though not entirely
This blog was on hiatus for a little longer than I expected. Followers of my
I am not a cook, and I don’t aspire to be one. But like many
As I’ve written before, I don’t usually dress up in costume on Halloween. But one
During the Christmas season, we scurry to find our loved ones unique gifts, suited to
A few years after we moved to Kansas City, my husband bought a sailing canoe.
February is Library Lovers Month. I come from a family of library lovers, and I
June is a good month for travel. Most places are not yet too hot, yet
You might think grammar is boring, but it is the writer’s toolbox. I marvel each
My daughter tells me her parent/baby group shows her nine variations of normal. What her
As I am finishing my current novel, it dawned on me that I have not
In our decluttering plan, I assigned my husband to clean the basement. Most of the
I have usually devoted at least one October post to “haunting books,” because October is
I’ve written many times about Pacific Grove and Carmel, California, and other venues on the
I’ve been thinking a lot about walking recently, because of my daughter’s broken leg. Her
I’ve written before about the journal I have kept for the past twenty years. About
Although many posts on this blog are about my life, I don’t aspire to write
This might be the last time I post on the topic of grown children because
I don’t know how I became the pumpkin carver in our family. My husband and
My maternal grandfather’s mother, Ada Jane Lewis Hooker, died when my grandfather was still a