I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving, if you celebrated.   Mine was just my parents and I, but we did the full Thanksgiving spread. We also did our annual family doughnut party on Sunday with the extended family.    I got to see two of my cousins and their families and my parents are continuing the traditions my mom’s parents started, which is really fun. It was great to catch up and the kids (many of whom are in college/graduating now!) have fun helping my dad fry the doughnut

My great-grandmother left Kaiserslautern, Germany in the late 1800s at the age of either fifteen or sixteen (there’s some family debate...

If you missed the previous announcement, I am writing a Christmas story as part of a shared world with a bunch of other authors. When we...