Sure, it’s a neck. Tragically, I will not be able to chase my mother around the house with a turkey neck this year. I know. I’m sad, too....

Booey, my bear since I was two, remains with us. Of course he does! Our house renovation has now started on the inside, so McIrish moved...

I may have mentioned that we’re renovating our house…the first home improvements we’ve done since we’ve moved in, back when we were young...

I had a week off, gang. A week of real vacation time, which is unusual for us authorly folk. We usually have writing, editing, revisions,...

Last week, I finished my twenty-second novel. This one was a tough one to write for good and bad reasons. On the happy front, I was busy...

Oh, sure, I love the great outdoors as much as anyone! As long as I can go back to a comfy room with hot water and plumbing and a...

As you may know, I’ve been alone quite a bit this summer, working away. I love solitude.  I always have. As a kid, I’d hide in the cellar...

PACK UP THE MOON, my latest book, is set in Providence, Rhode Island, a small city with a lot going on. It’s home to eight...

Now that is some fresh flannel. There are often details that jerk me right out of an otherwise satisfactory movie or television...

In PACK UP THE MOON, Lauren is a self-described daddy’s girl. When her dad dies during Lauren’s sophomore year of college, she’s...

Aw. Mike is teary-eyed. Good. What beautiful vows! They’re both so eloquent. I’m so happy! Look at them! They love each other so much!...

My daughter, my lovely princess, is getting married on Saturday. I am so happy. They say that time flies by, that it seems like yesterday...

One of the things that might not be immediately obvious about PACK UP THE MOON is that it’s a book about marriage, and how to do it...

Hilary and me I have two sisters: Hilary, who is 15 months younger than I am and was a grade behind me in school. We were treated as...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in need of a dress for a special occasion must be condemned not to find one. Kid,...

You betcha. Last night, dear readers, McIrish and I endeavored to practice our dancing skills. Let me set the scene for you. I consider...

This should only take a hundred years or so… My friend Joss bought a house last year in the middle of the pandemic. It’s tiny, in an...

First came the dresses. There was a fancy store in our town, and we’d only go there once a year…for Easter. Oh, my goodness! We didn’t...

I took a walk around an old cemetery today. I love cemeteries, though I don’t want to be buried in one. I’m more of a cremation/compost...

This pandemic thing is a year old now, and the end is near (those words finally sound damn cheerful, don’t they?). I know we’ll all have...