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On Autumn Leaves and Rootedness
It’s mid-October, and for the last couple of weeks I’ve been noticing leaves. Washington State
October 15, 2025
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It’s mid-October, and for the last couple of weeks I’ve been noticing leaves. Washington State
For over fifteen years, I’ve been following the Write on the Sound (WOTS) conference sponsored
My husband and I moved to a retirement community in Seattle a year ago this
This year one of the many things I am grateful for is the readers of
The importance of rail development in the West is one of the plot lines in
I’ve been stuck a few times while writing my historical novels. My characters got into
My mother collected silver souvenir spoons from foreign countries. Some showed national symbols and some
Forsythia have always signaled spring to me. Yellow is not my favorite color, but the
A week ago when I posted, my father was alive. He was a regular reader
I had another novel in mind for my last haunting book review this month, but
In my novel Now I’m Found, Jenny, one of the lead characters in the book,
July 24 is Amelia Earhart Day. The news recently has been full of speculation about
Many years ago, my department at work took the Gallup StrengthsFinder survey to find out
I’ve mentioned before that I spent two of my birthdays at Cannon Beach, Oregon—my 12th
My parents were married in June 1955, after about seven years of dating—they’d met as
I mentioned several months ago that I had resurrected a short story I wrote in college
I’ve written before that my ancestor, Cyrenus Hooker, was the first person murdered in Polk
As I mentioned in my August 15 post last year, by mid-August the wagon trains
My book Family Recipe: Sweet and saucy stories, essays and poems about family life has now
By WordPress’s calculations, this is my 500th post. I’ve been blogging on this site for