I love reading historical romances and novels. Actually, I wrote four historical romances (two Regency and two Victorian) and a Jane Austen short story before I got published. But I was not a natural at it for sure! I spent so many hours stopping the writing and then researching everything from the types of teacups [...]

It's been a terrific summer, but there are signs that it's coming to an end. Kids are heading back to school and my grocery store is already selling everything with pumpkin in it and making orange, yellow, and brown icing for the cakes. (Not complaining--I love pumpkin!) Summer started officially with my daughter graduating from college. [...]

Every summer I think about how trying to work with kids around the house is like continually stabbing yourself in the eye with a pen. I still feel that way, even though my children are nineteen and above now, and have been in and out this summer as their lives have dictated.  But for a [...]