Category: family
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Back home and making peace with my TBR Pile
Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously.–Mole, The Wind in the Willows…
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The Cracked Rib Christmas
2023 is the year I leveled up for ten months.Then I leveled way down. I wrote three books and a…
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Crazy love
My dad, who passed away last fall, was often a difficult person to deal with. But I never doubted that…
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The memory tree
Home Short Fiction Blog X The memory tree I have friends who decorate their Christmas trees in color schemes, with…
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Sneak attacked by joy
Home Short Fiction Blog X When I was growing up in Iowa, May Day was the best. You made up…
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The impossibility of writing in an empty house
Home Short Fiction Blog X The door closes. There is that beautiful sound: silence. The sound I’ve longed to hear,…
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Hot date at Safeway
Home Short Fiction Blog X My husband suggested that we go by ourselves to the grocery store. We needed some…
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Packing up my horcruxes
Home Short Fiction Blog X My siblings and I have been cleaning out the house we grew up in (see…
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Just your average superhero family
Home Short Fiction Blog X I loved The Incredibles. When the trailer for The Incredibles 2 came out, I was…
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Anniversaries on the edge
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How NOT to do an Artist’s Date
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The Cracked Rib Christmas
2023 is the year I leveled up for ten months.Then…
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The Laughing Loaf Bacon Bread recipe
Bacon bread is by far the most popular bread item…
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Crazy love
My dad, who passed away last fall, was often a…
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A house named hope
Four years ago today, on April 22, 2019, I sat…
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New year—new news!
New years is not my favorite holiday. To me it…
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Back home and making peace with my TBR Pile
Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured,…
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Substitute
I bake. I’ve loved doing it as long as I…