Our House

Nine years ago today, Cathy and I closed on our house. It was a new start for us. We’d found our way back to each other after thirty-four years apart. We’d both left unhappy marriages and had fallen in love all over again. Over the past nine years, this house—our house—has been filled with so…

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What Do Your Characters Love?

It amazes me to think I’ve been maintaining this blog for eighteen years. I resisted it so much at first, but my web designer convinced me it was important, and gradually I came to love it. I like to think it’s been helpful to more than a few of you. Still, there are times when…

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Berryville, Illinois: I was Listening to Your Lessons on Love

When I was a child, my Thanksgivings were always spent with my mother’s side of my family. We gathered at my grandmother’s house in the crossroads village of Berryville, Illinois, catty-corner from the general store that my grandparents had run once upon a time. My grandmother’s house is now gone as is the store and…

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