I strain to squeeze out the very last toothpaste in a tube. When my shampoo stops pumping, I turn the container over and shake the...

I’m embarrassed to admit how little I knew about bees before I started my newest National Park mystery. I could conjure a honey bee and a...

I tried a new approach during my month-long trip to Europe. I cut my picture-taking to one quarter of the amount I usually snap. Why? In...

Writers are lucky. As soon as we let strangers know we make up stories and publish them, we’re greeted with smiles and comments of...

“Show me a picture of your house. Outside and inside, please.” Setting matters to me. Does it to you? When I’m getting to know people...

I don’t know exactly when nor why I chose to saddle the heroine of When Winds Howl with my cancer. I wasn’t being sadistic, nor was I...

Before, during, and after writing a novel, the dedication and acknowledgement page is always on an author’s mind. Including one in the...

I yearn for the day when fans of my books, thousands of them, bug me to name the month my next book comes out. But because I haven’t...

Covid and my bout with cancer made me a shut-in for two years, but since the world’s population was affected by the virus, immobility...

Travelers yearn to visit interesting places all over the world, and with so many sites to choose from, the decision to revisit a place is...

‘ Aging Out.’ I heard the words used last week referring to golf organizations whose memberships are shrinking because elderly golfers...

You already know I’m a pantser as a writer, which means each day I sit down in my office chair, place my fingers on the keyboard…and...

With a virgin small-boat cruise around the Great Lakes under my belt, I’ve taken to reading cruise brochures from Viking, Seaborne,...

Any virgin experience upsets a person’s schema, especially if that human, me, has lived more than seventy years. By now, I have adopted...

Most couples dutifully celebrate their wedding anniversaries yearly. Comic bits about men forgetting the important date always make us...