October 10, 2026 There is something about October that makes me remember. Maybe it is the crispness in the air, the changing leaves, or the way the days grow a little shorter. Autumn seems to invite us to slow down and look back. When I was a little girl growing up in Idaho, fall wasn't simply a pretty season. It was a busy one. There were potatoes to harvest, gardens to finish, food to put away, and preparations to make before winter arrived. As a child, I didn't think of th

I never really set out to become an author. I simply had stories I didn’t want to lose. Some were memories from my own childhood—growing up in Idaho, playing outdoors, getting into mischief, working alongside my family, and experiencing the kind of ordinary days that didn’t seem important at the time. But as the years passed, I began to understand just how precious those ordinary days were. I wanted to remember my mother’s kitchen, my father’s hard-working hands, the people w