If this had happened to you …
I’ve been moved and paralyzed since I stumbled upon “Intended Consequences“, a multi-media presentation by Jonathan Torgovnik. The world has a way of intruding into my writing. I’d planned to write a sequel to my novel As the Heart Bones Break. I’d intended to focus on a female character in the first novel and set the story in the refugee … Continue reading
A Singapore Thanksgiving – The Monday before
It’s a boat person’s festival that’s why… When we lived in the US, it was a public holiday, an opportunity for far flung too busy friends and relatives to get together. With memories of the war and of hunger still stalking them, my husband’s people commemorated this American migrant feast with the solemnity of ancestral anniversary days. … Continue reading
Resistance
Image Credit: TS Rogers I had a nightmare about pacmen shooting at me; they were shouting – Resistance is futile! resistance is futile. Clearly the product of a fevered brain that’s spent too much time trying to write both the fall of Vietnam and September 11th into the same chapter! I needed a break. This is what came out … Continue reading
Xinjiang before the guns
We went to Xinjiang because our then eight year old wanted to travel the Silk Road. In the days of Empire, Xinjiang was the first stop outside China for pilgrims and traders. Now, in the era of the People’s Republic, it is the last province before the steppes and republics of Central Asia. In Xinjiang, the water tables … Continue reading
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