I got such a fun note in my inbox a couple of weeks ago. Let me start at the beginning. When our kids were growing up, we lived in the small town of Hesston, Kansas. One of our favorite families there was the King family. Like us, they had four kids, except their oldest was in the same class as our youngest. Still, Mike and Peggy let us oldsters be friends with them, and we spent many fun hours … [Read more...]

Now that we're pretty well settled into our house in Missouri and I'm back on a regular writing schedule, I've had a lot more time to read. Here are some of the books I've enjoyed recently, and others that are up next on my (tall!) TBR pile. (That's "to-be-read" pile in case you're not familiar with the acronym.) … [Read more...]