In my novel What’s Left, Cassia’s father is from Davenport, Iowa. Maybe via Tibet, in a way. And later, Cassia makes her own move.
What’s your biggest relocation been from your own hometown?
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Moving on in your life, hopefully to something better
Ruthie’s garden
Proclaimed loudly in the silence of Quaker worship
Mommy! I’ll be quiet!
Common themes in my novels
Not that I ever planned it that way.
- Spirituality and religion
- Romantic partnership
- Workplace, career, economics
- Landscape and location
- Food
- Bohemian lifestyles
- Public service
- Friendship
- History
- Idealism and hope.
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Dancing from different directions
Sometimes work serves as a rudder
The skills Aristotle gains in the shipyard in the old country allow him to navigate through a lifetime in my novel What’s Left.
What did your grandfathers do for a living?
Kinisi 75
Salad writers
Salad winters
Rooted in place
Thinking of change
What can I possibly do and still be me?
Even at my age?
From the depth of the eclipse the birds sang the sun back
as I face the denarius of worldly possessions with all the ways I could spend that sum rather than something pragmatic as winter, rather than its start, so these are important distinctions . who knows, I had the money when I needed it, and that was fine
Jnana's Red Barn 