Announcement    Are you a spiritual person who reflects on what life hands you? My newest release, Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better?, deals with reflecting deeply on what happened to us in 2020-21 during the pandemic. Read, reflect and respond—I offer you these actions to reclaim what happened!

Climb up that spiral staircase to my shop, Larada's Reading Loft. Kick off your shoes and relax with one of my books.

Do you like memoirs? I have two. One is about my childhood in a rural southeastern Colorado town. The other is a grief memory about the loss of my parents.

HOW ABOUT WRITING YOUR OWN MEMOIR? I have a Memoir Workshop booklet that you can walk yourself through writing your personal stories or your families.

Do you like historical fiction? I have one that was a story I heard all my life and fictionalized. It is an immigration story pertinent to today's world of focus.

How about nonfiction? Read the story of how my grandfather put our family ranch together during the depression when others were losing theirs.

How about a compelling biography? Read about the most famous square dance caller in the world who began in a chicken coop. He also experienced World War II as a seventeen year old!

Do you like unusual cookbooks? Look at my series of three cookbooks--I scanned in my mom's recipe cards, so you see her handwriting and stains from much use.

Here's my family legacy through memoirs, stories, poetry and cookbooks--come and visit!