A short memoir of lessons learned in the kitchen and garden of the author's grandmother. The influence of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl is seen in lessons of work, food and generosity.

A Heartwarming Holiday Short Story Collection About Home, Kindness, and Second ChancesStep into the quiet magic of the holiday season with this beautifully written collection of short stories that celebrate the moments that matter most.Set against snowy nights, glowing windows, and familiar winter rituals, these stories explore the many ways the holidays shape our lives. Within these pages, you’ll meet characters facing reconciliation after years apart, chi...

Imagine painting the same subject day after day for years. Would the artist come to be tired of it? Would it grow stale? Or would the artist see the challenge in making each painting unique?Manuel is a gallery owner who discovers an artist who has painted the same church for years. And each painting is unique and expressive of the man's love for the church. Can others be made to see the artist's genius?

A family learns how intelligent and frighteningly devoted crows can be when a young girl befriends a family of the birds. This short story takes place in Denver, Colorado, where the danger that lurks is not always the expected.

In this short story that takes place during the 2020 pandemic, a young boy discovers a mysterious power hidden within his sidewalk chalk drawings. The power's terrible consequences force him to make a decision that could destroy his life, or set him free.

Samantha, a young traveler is on her first trip to Spain and her first vacation outside of her home in the United States. The strangeness of her surroundings begins to wear on her and she looks forward to going back home. Her friend and traveling companion is fully enjoying herself and is immersed in the experience, but are Samantha's feelings of dread unfounded?

Fierce winter winds blow across the prairie and fill this small town on the Colorado plains with tumbleweeds and damage.Told through the eyes of a young boy, the town pulls together to help neighbors and to restore its Christmas spirit.

Professional photographer Rowan O'Donnell doesn't want to find dead bodies, but for the second time she has stumbled across one. With her boyfriend, Rob, and Twist, her loyal dog, Rowan becomes involved in a murder case in the mountains of Colorado in order to help out a friend, but soon finds that this is much more than it seems. Her investigations lead her to knowledge that an entire community is in danger, not to mention her own life.

This is a collection of short stories about contemporary women living and working in the western United States. They each face challenges - poverty, violence, grief, discrimination - and handle them in their own way, but usually with a spirit of grit and determination. Three of these stories have never before been published, and one was a 2021 finalist in The LAURA Short Story contest for members of Women Writing the West.

Two young women survive a flash flood. During their adventure they find a hidden cave full of drawings of animals and symbols done by ancient people.The artwork connects them in place and time to the wider, universal dance of life.

This short story is a reverie about winter snow, the night skies, the mountains. And it is about loneliness and longing.This was first published on the Author's website as a Christmas gift for her readers and family. Now it is available here for all to read.

When you look up the definition of a caper, you see that it can either mean to playfully skip and dance about; or it means an illicit or silly escapade or activity.These stories are a mix of silly, strange, miraculous, dangerous, supernatural and hopeful tales. But they all involve the arts. From sculpture, design, painting, music, and even perfume making, these stories are about the makers of art or the consequences of their making.