Family Recipe: Sweet and saucy stories, essays, and poems about family life is exactly that–a short anthology about my life and family. “Normally Dysfunctional”–the title of the first piece in this collection–summarizes what families are all about. Contrary to Tolstoy, every family–happy or sad–resembles every other. Family Recipe contains something to bring a […]
My anthology of short stories, essays and poems will be published and available soon. Here is a sample essay, “Normally Dysfunctional,” which was first published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family. I hope you enjoy it. Normally Dysfunctional “At least you’re not my real mother!” My daughter’s […]
BOOKS: My most recent book, published in October 2015, is Lead Me Home: Hardship and hope on the Oregon Trail. This is the first novel I have published under my own name. You can find out more about Lead Me Home on its page of this blog. [link] Lead Me Home […]
