Small towns are a lot like snowflakes -- no two are the same. But there is one thing they have in common. They all love their festivals! When I was growing up, our town’s fall festival was the highlight of the year, a time to celebrate the beauty of Western New York...

I was a precocious child. At age four, I was inexplicably drawn to the light-blue boxed set on the top shelf in our basement that was the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and convinced my mom to read them to me. At first she tried to explain...

One of the initial ideas that came to my mind as I writing The Keeper’s Secret was the way someone’s marriage falls apart. That was something I didn’t know much about. My parents had been married forever, as had their parents. My in-laws, too, were married for eons....