One of the first stops Ken and I made in our recent six-weeks-long trip was Winterset, Iowa, home of the covered bridges of Madison County and the setting for my newest novel, Bridges. (KEEP READING FOR A DEAL ON BRIDGES TODAY ONLY!) We'd visited Winterset several times during the years our youngest son attended college in Iowa. And the charming town that inspired the bestselling novel The … [Read more...]

We are home from our almost six weeks of wandering through 11 states, 8 national parks, and 14 state parks. It was wonderful, but oh, my, is it ever good to be home! As I was looking through our photos, it struck me how many different things we ate, but more specifically, how many things I eat (and love!) now that I didn't even know existed when I was growing up (or even when we were raising … [Read more...]