I'm setting up my author website, and I'm packing up the blog to the new location!   I'll still blog sort of weekly (ish), but...

Photo credit: Quiet Delusions This summer has been one of dabbling--I've been playing guitar, learning to cook a little, and for what...

my second loaf of homemade bread, better than the first I used to be a sandwich artist.  Back when the bread had a u-shaped notch in it a...

I just wrote an actual real post about writing, but I'm scheduling it for Tuesday because I want to let it simmer in my head a little wh...

Coming home from daycare, my children got into a knock-down, screaming fight about...the EXACT number of shady spots in our front yard. J...

So last week I got my copyedits.  I actually got them in the mail the day before we left on our little trip, and I was a bit worried that th...

My family has been a bit obsessed with Laura Ingalls Wilder lately.  That's not the point of this post.  But seriously, we seem to be ex...

Our campsite at Sage Creek Campground in June, 2000 Very early in our relationship, David and I took a road trip to Kansas to visit my da...

At the midpoint of my spring break, which I've also designated a writing-free break, I took the family out to our favorite brew pub for ...

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