The heart of research

  I’ve spent hours and hours researching World War II history and it’s hard to find much about the Pacific Northwest during World War II, even though there is a TON of history there! That’s when I discovered the Portland Oregonian’s online...

Story Behind the Story: Victoria Burks

One night I dreamed the basic plot to this book. It was as though I was watching a live performance of a play, the main characters’ images clear in the dream. Not one to dream often, I asked God when I awoke the next morning, “Why did I dream a dream like...

Book Review: Letters from Home

Special Sunday Post Letters from Home Chicago, 1944. Liz Stephens has little interest in attending a USO club dance with her friends Betty and Julia. She doesn’t need a flirtation with a lonely serviceman when she’s set to marry her childhood sweetheart....