At Last!Volume XIII, Issue One | March 2018 The last couple of years have been tough for me as a writer. I spent two years on a book that didn’t...
Hardscrabble, My New Children’s BookVolume XII, Issue Four | December 2017 Some of the best friends I ever made were in junior high school. When I was at Smiley Junior...
A Bit of Central Asia in NebraskaVolume XII, Issue Three | September 2017 Two years ago in Istanbul, Mehmet, the proprietor of The Columns, a shop near the Arasta...
In NicaraguaVolume XII, Issue Two | June 2017 For the past 10 years, my daughter Dana has volunteered to work in an eyeglasses clinic in Central...
Facts And, Yes, Alternative FactsVolume XII, Issue One | March 2017 Several years ago, I asked an historian to read the manuscript of True Sisters for errors. It’s my...
Quilt Patterns EverywhereVolume XI, Issue Four | December 2016 Quilt Patterns Everywhere Last summer, my daughter Dana and I went to Spain. Dana took pictures of...
HubrisVolume XI, Issue Three | September 2016 My agent didn’t beat around the bush. “I don’t have good news,” she said one day last spring. ...
