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The Reading Corner Newsletter September 2020 Hello readers! We’re inching into fall, although it’s still glorious weather here in the Pacific Northwest. We never know when the curtain will come down [...]

Those Pesky Reviews About those pesky reviews. Reviews are the bane and the joy of every writer’s life, something we dread and crave at the same time. Oh, the highs when we [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter August 2020 Hello again Readers! Reflection: A year ago (seems like 10 years ago now), my husband asked me to carve out the month of July for [...]

Of Composition Notebooks and Number 2 Pencils Three black and white composition notebooks. Three dozen sharpened #2 pencils. Three weeks out on the water. Every July, this combination results in a multitude [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter July 2020 Hello Readers! Welcome to my first newsletter! I aim to keep you informed of my professional life, with snippets of my personal life thrown in [...]

Nineteenth Century Armchair Travel Nonfiction—and especially narrative non-fiction—is the historical novelist’s secret weapon while researching. Well-written narratives take us back centuries where the American West lives on in aura and story. Whether [...]

Five Hundred Forty Loaves of Bread In this Time of Coronavirus, there’s been an uptick in reading, puzzle piecing, game playing, and bread baking as people find themselves with extra hours in [...]

This Not-So-Little Light of Mine You might say I’ve always been a walking poster child of Henry Dixon Loes’s classic Sunday School song: This little light of mine! I’m gonna let it [...]

Nine Out of Ten I won’t ever climb Mt. Everest. After reading Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air,” the account of the ill-fated 1996 Everest expedition that left more than a dozen experienced [...]

Book Girl A Long Ago Memory A bank of colorful cubbies lines the eastern wall and over there, on the western wall, you’ll see the kitchen, music center, and oversized dress up [...]