I do not have many African American characters in my books, but I do include
Today is Ash Wednesday, but although I am Catholic, I will not be getting ashes
As I’ve written before, my husband recently spent 30 days in the hospital. This was
My husband took up rowing after our daughter joined the crew team at Georgetown University.
I’ve written before about our family’s trips to the Absaroka Ranch in Wyoming, where we
When I arrived at Middlebury College, I knew no one. The college did a reasonably
I described my son’s tantrum in my last post, so it’s only fair that in
In all the years we’ve been married, my husband and I have never spent Christmas
In addition to our 35th wedding anniversary, I have another 35th this year – thirty-five
I had to deal with a financial problem the other day, right in the middle
My husband and I spent Christmas by ourselves this year. Most of our 46 Christmases
Last year in November I posted about my progress on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month),
It seems that in over five years of writing this blog, I have never written
I thought about only including historical fiction in my “haunting books” this year, but a
When I think of my childhood Christmases, I think of going to my grandparents’ home
1. You find a long list of alcoholic beverages in your car in your son’s
As I searched for a topic on the California Gold Rush to write about this
One of my goals for 2020 is to research Oregon history for my next historical
By WordPress’s calculations, this is my 500th post. I’ve been blogging on this site for
Once the emigrants to Oregon survived the plains and the Rockies, they still had to
I decided to write about the Oregon Trail in part because the concept of leaving