
How AI Saved Me $1,000
There is a lot of controversy around the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in

There is a lot of controversy around the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in

After four months and nearly 2,000 miles on the Oregon Trail, the Denny Party reached

Twenty-one years ago, in August 2005, my family gathered to celebrate my parents’ 50th wedding
In August 1985, thirty-five years ago this month, I returned to work after my second
My youngest sibling was in kindergarten the year I started college. When I came home
I am writing this post just a few hours after I dropped my daughter and

Last Saturday was our nation’s 250th birthday. Along with many other people, I’ve been thinking
As I announced in my newsletter on November 19, Safe Thus Far is now available
I’m not good at remembering summer birthdays. Maybe it’s because there’s too much else to

This is a self-pity post. I’ve had a cold or the flu for the last
I mentioned last week that I left home for college about the time my sister
Forgive me one more birthday story. After this post, I’ll move on with my year.
As I scrolled through old photographs recently, I came across pictures of my father taken
For the Fourth of July when I was seven, someone gave my brother (who was
In my last post, I mentioned that I developed some friends during my second grade
Building a new house has taught me all sorts of esoteric terms. Our online construction
I’m hard at work editing my next historical novel, titled Forever Mine: Love Along the
Once Oregon City was a thriving town at the end of the Oregon Trail, the
My husband sold his boat earlier this year, and I discovered that three boxes of

I wrote about one road trip from hell—a 2007 trip to New Orleans for my
I’ve written before that my ancestor, Cyrenus Hooker, was the first person murdered in Polk