#StayHomeAndRead

So, there we were on Saturday, April 13, just back from grocery shopping when at 11:15A we heard a huge crash outside. I looked at my husband. He looked at me. "That wasn't an explosion," he said. "That wasn't a crash out on the water." We were both right. It was a...

I had planned to write the end-of-year blog post about what happened to me last year. Some of it might have been true; some of it might have been fantasy. Each time I sat to write, I found that, while my year had been good, it hadn't been all that memorable. I mean, I...

with apologies to CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE 'Twas the night before deadline, when all through the house Not a writer was stirring, not even his mouse; The laptop was set on the table with care, In hopes that words soon would appear. Images nestled all snug in his...

Like most of us, I've been doing a lot of reading and writing lately. My most recent book was Heath Hardage Lee's A League of Women about the wives who refused to stay silent while their husbands were captive in Vietnam. These women. who were raised in...