images from Stencil Next Thursday in the United States is Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday in November-- officially since Abraham Lincoln...

  The blog  title asks a question. What is a dark angel? Well, in this book, it's not a supernatural being, but rather what the heroine ...

  If you read Desert Inferno, you will know that its hero, Jake Donovan, was sure Rachel O'Brian would fall for the handsome federal ag...

image we took in 2011 on one of our desert hikes. The rattler is not in the book, but it is a symbol of the danger that is.   Next in my ser...

Looking down my list of issues, one of them is very important, perhaps the most important for the difference between our two American partie...

Image we photographed at the Arizona State Museum When I wrote the original eight Arizona historical romances, they came widely spread apar...

  Although I had two possible blogs lined up, when I thought about this being Easter week, I delayed them for a week and then two because th...

  by Rain Trueax Well, it's come around again-- our anniversary. This time it happens on a Saturday, which was the same 56 years ago. I ...

by Rain Trueax November 29th-- moon setting with the sun from our desert home, Casa Espiritu How can it already be December with ano...

by Rain Trueax This week, I got to thinking about how much of life is about luck and timing. Those two items can go either way for whe...

by Rain Trueax When you reach a certain age, which could vary for any of us, the idea of end of life comes into play. I mean at 75, I o...

Interestingly my studio has all paintings that satisfy me and the rest of the house has more unfinished work that I  like seeing from many...

How I make time to paint is such an interesting question,  I wonder why it never occurred to me. This is an excellent question for all of ...

by Rain Trueax What does Christmas mean to you? In my life, it has changed from the beginning, the first time I was told what it w...

“East Indian Dancers”, my mother, Margaret Widler's egg tempera. I am thankful for my family for many reasons. Their support of my ...

by Rain Trueax When I made the decision to become an indie author, I was 68 years old. I had been writing books since I was in my teens...

by Rain Trueax Some many years ago, on this day, I became a mother thanks to my daughter's arrival. There are some moments in life tha...

by Rain Trueax My research into Dreamscope is ongoing as I try to figure out how the upgrade would work. Would I be paying $9.99 a month w...