Honest, raw reflections on everything from mortality to sobriety to love to family dysfunction and everything in between...with an added dash of hope. Fiction, literature, travel, books, my daily life as an expat.
“So howled out for the world to give him a name.
The indark answered with wind.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
:: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres.
The arts, books, movies, a course: Write it!, The Writing Life, (Re)Making Love: a memoir (fully up now), Who by Fire: a novel, Cooking With Mary, Watercolors and story in Letters to My Granddaughter.
I write about almost everything, from personal essay and memoir to fiction to travel essays to politics to book reviews to thoughts on literature to novels and stories and much more.
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