Silk in Kansas
The newest issue of Lawrence Magazine features my story on Silkville, a utopian community determined to raise silk worms and produce silk on the Kansas prairie in the late 1800s. The community failed, and the silk ranch is now a…
Fiercely competitive
My husband’s family loves to play card games. For 25 years, for every holiday or family gathering, the brothers and sisters and now the younger generation have spent countless hours around the dining room table dealing cards and talking smack.…
The Bluebird People
All summer, I’ve enjoyed watching bluebirds play in our yard. They hang out on the gutters of the house, swoop down into the grass to catch lunch, and chase each other to the woods and back. After population declines a…