An Hour A Day

In my beloved Betsy-Tacy books, Betsy's father, Mr. Ray, likes to say of February, "When the days begin to lengthen, then the cold ...

As a writer, I'm more of a plotter than a "pantser." Before I write the first line of chapter one, I usually have a good sense...

I have never been to a place where there is as much free food as DePauw. This week alone I have had: 1) lovely wine and cheese and other n...

When I'm in Greencastle, I attend Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church, right on the DePauw campus. Much is familiar to me at Gobin fr...

So here I am, home again in Greencastle, as happy a Hoosier as I was before. I'm living again with my friend Julia, and her six-year-old...

Solitary road trips have their own magic, especially road trips off to a whole new life - well, in my case, a temporary return to a previous...

For most of my writing career, like most writers, I wrote alone. I rose early in the morning, made myself my mug of Swiss Miss hot chocolate...