I’ve written many times about Pacific Grove and Carmel, California, and other venues on the Monterey Peninsula. But for decades I didn’t visit that idyllic place in my past. My grandmother moved away from Pacific Grove in the summer of 1967. My husband and I went there once or twice […]
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Another Mother/Daughter Milestone: Buying a Wedding Dress
Now that my daughter is in her mid-thirties, I thought we had passed all the mother/daughter milestones. But apparently not. She is getting married later this summer, and she came to visit recently with the intention of taking me to help her buy a wedding dress. We spent an afternoon […]
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My Memories of Albany, Oregon
I wrote last week about using Albany, Oregon, as a setting in my current work-in-progress. Writing that post caused me to remember my own experiences in Albany dating back to my preschool years when our family lived in nearby Corvallis, Oregon. My dad was getting his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering […]
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Moving Memories From Two Years Ago
In recent weeks, my Microsoft OneDrive memory feed has reminded me of our move into our new home in late July 2019. I had this blog on hiatus for a couple of weeks in that time frame, so I didn’t post about some of our moving experiences. There was some […]
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OneDrive and Not-So-Random Photos
I recently loaded the OneDrive app on my Android phone so that I could have access to documents I’ve backed up to the cloud anywhere on any device. It won’t enable me to be productive everywhere, as it would be difficult to edit Scrivener files (the program I use to […]
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First Visit with Santa—Better on Zoom?
A couple of weeks ago a friend told me about her family’s experience setting up a visit from Santa for her grandchildren this year. Two of her grandkids are four-year-old boys. Of course, they need to see Santa, pandemic or no pandemic. So parents and grandparents are working on a […]
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Grocery Deliveries Long Before the Pandemic
My parents had a stroller for me when I was an infant. I don’t remember riding in the seat, but there is a picture to prove that I did. Once my brother came along, he got the seat, and I was relegated to standing on the back of the stroller. […]
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A Childhood Epizootic
In these days of the coronavirus, every cough and every ache or pain makes us fearful. At least, that’s how I’m feeling these days. Spring is coming regardless of the pandemic, and I try to take solace in the warmer days, the brilliant sunshine, the greening of trees and lawns. But […]
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Cinderella Through the Decades
I follow This Day in History, watching for events that relate to my historical novels. Every once in a while, I learn something that finds its way into my novels. The information also provides fodder for blog posts, such as this one. Most of what I learn has nothing to […]
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Memories of Thanksgiving and My Paternal Grandparents
Thanksgiving is behind us now, but just barely. I was thinking this past holiday weekend about my paternal grandparents. When I was growing up, we spent more time with my mother’s parents than my father’s, but we often did spend Thanksgiving with my paternal grandparents. As a small child, I […]
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