Who doesn’t love a book about a second chance at love? Whether it’s a new shot at a first love or a story of divorced spouses remembering why they fell in love in the first place, these stories make us feel good. A second chance is an opportunity to fix … Read More

We have been wandering around Michigan for the last few weeks. This is a state suspended between four of the Great Lakes. It doesn’t take long to get to one of them from any part of the state. Lake Erie Right before we took a crazy drive through Detroit (who … Read More

The summer is halfway through. Back-to-school displays are already up. Can Halloween be far behind? Dog Days Wait! We still have the dog days of August ahead. What does that phrase really mean? According to Wikipedia, it refers to the rise of the “dog star” (Sirius) in Greek astrology. For … Read More

Spring is poking its head up all around. As my husband and I emerge from our winter lodgings in Tucson, we’ve joined the increase of traveling RVs on the road. (The cat is not happy.) As other RVs began to leave, the urge to get out and go—somewhere, anywhere—increased. Promises … Read More

In the Northern Hemisphere, each day has less sunlight. Of course, we know it will grow light again after the solstice, but what if we didn’t KNOW that. Would we have hope that it would? Would we pray to whatever superior being was handy? That’s a bit what it is … Read More

Living the way we do in a roving trailer, a community can be hard to come by. Community on the road is a lot different from the small towns I’ve created or used in the Promise Cove and Beck Family Saga series. (If you’ve read Starting for Home, the town … Read More

I’ve been making quilts for my grandchildren for over a decade now. I only have two left. But quilting on the road is a lot more difficult than having a dedicated space! RV Parks often have community spaces where women gather, but Covid squashed that for most of the last … Read More

Living on the road requires going to the laundromat every few weeks. It’s convenient when the facilities are at the RV park, but we are often places where it’s necessary to unearth a laundromat and go there. Laundromats are great equalizers, like the military once was. And it’s a great … Read More

Fiction can be plodding and dull without tension, and that is provided by conflict. In my current WIP, the two main characters come from different worlds, have different belief systems, and different goals. Yet they are attracted to each other and like each other as people. This often occurs in … Read More

When I arrived on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana to teach junior high in the fall of 1976, I had no idea what I was getting into. Nor did I understand how the next three years would impact my life and perspective. I did learn a lot about … Read More