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The State of the State Yesterday was spent on the sorting line of RR Winery. Pinot Noir grapes came in from our original vineyard on Ribbon Ridge–beautiful, plump clusters, sweeter than [...]

The State of the State Damn, it’s hot. I’m not complaining. I love summer, particularly those long luscious days when sunset doesn’t come until after 9 p.m. Summer is about [...]

The State of the State I left y’all last month on the cusp of my trip to Tucson. If I went there to get sunshine, I was sorely disappointed. During my time there, more than two inches of [...]

February/March newsletter The cruelest month “February is the cruelest month”…or so says Emma Golden in my second novel, The Difficult Sister. For me, as well as for Emma, it [...]

The other day before work I returned to Lower Hillsdale Heights. It’s been a while since I’ve been there. Emma’s little bungalow still looks the same–modest, trim, a part [...]

It’s been a wild couple weeks behind the scenes as The Man Who Wasn’t There approaches publication. As we speak, the e-book version has been sent to various outlets–Amazon, [...]

Those of you who know me personally are aware that I, like my fictional heroine Emma Golden,  lived in Yamhill County for 20 years. Harry, Ian, Wynne, and I moved out there in 1986 after I found [...]

By now, most of you have seen the lovely cover photo I chose for my soon-to-be-released mystery novel, The Man Who Wasn’t There, the third in the Emma Golden mystery series. The image was [...]