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 was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him
My current work-in-progress begins in 1872, and I recently researched what was said about Thanksgiving
My website is now seven and a half years old, and the blog posts date
I’m kicking myself, as writers often do. Actually, in every profession I’ve been in to
My son says that when he lived in New York several years ago I told
Today my son turns thirty-seven. As I’ve been going through boxes, trying to declutter, I
Ever since I began researching the Oregon Trail route for my novel about travel along
As readers of this blog know, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, my
After I whined in a recent post about skiing, I now must report that I
This post is mostly about The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Oksuka, which my
In 2003, my work group had just completed the Gallup employee engagement survey. One of
Today, April 25, 2018, would have been my father’s 85th birthday. (He was 52 days
I have written several times about my grandfather’s clock. I have had it in my
Books by local authors make great holiday gifts. Many of these books will be unknown
Who waits for Black Friday (now called “Thanksgiving evening”) or Cyber Monday? When I was
I’ve reached an exciting point in writing my current work-in-progress—I’m about to send the manuscript
The Kansas City Star has a column called “Snarky in the Suburbs” by Sherry Kuehl,
I recently received a notification from somewhere in my social media memories that I launched