Subscribe to Linda Gray Sexton's Blog: "Linda's Letters"

The phone call from the pet-sitter came through on my mobile at eleven p.m. E.S.T, just as we were sitting down to dinner in California. Our vacation thus-far had been ...

Being a grandparent is supposed to be one of life's greatest joys, and, in fact, this coming Sunday is National Grandparents Day. In the past, I did indeed find that ...

August fourth is National Friendship Day. Probably most of us don’t even know such a day exists. I didn’t, until I heard about it from a friend last week.  Celebrating ...

How did I get through the loss of Gulliver, the dog of my heart, to whom I dedicated Bespotted? How did I put away my grief and return to living ...

Writers keep bizarre schedules: some compose late at night, some early in the morning, some whenever the urge overwhelms them. I am a disciplined early riser–or should I say that ...

The writing business is peculiar. One year you publish a novel or a memoir or a biography, and then as many as five years can pass while you write the ...

As I write today, it is “Juneteenth,” the national celebration begun on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger led Union soldiers into Galveston, Texas and announced that both ...

This year, the weather was idyllic and we spent a lot of time lounging on rafts in the pool, pushing the little ones on the swings and clambering up into ...