“Child sexual abuse garners the most severe emotional response from the taxpaying public.” That’s a quote from my book, Unlocking Minds in Lockup, drawn on here to explain the current news emphasis on criminal sentencing laws as congress considers confirming a supreme court judge appointment. The book is an account of my eighteen-year career teaching […]
Thanks to Westsound Magazine and contributor Ann Randall for publishing a story about my work in their March/April 2022 Features section. “Author Inspired by Personal, Professional Experiences,” touches on my 18 years teaching inside women’s and men’s prisons in Washington State and my twelve published books. They highlighted Unlocking Minds in Lockup, a memoir of […]
“A Farm in the South Pacific Sea” is the title of a book about an enterprising but restless Seattle woman who wanted to do something of value in her life. She’d married and divorced young, remarried twice and never had children. She owned an apartment building in Seattle, financed by her freelance bookkeeping career. She […]
The title could be Writing While Frightened, Writing While Anxious, Writing While Worried (www, but that stands for something else, so let’s not use that). Most of us are worried about the virus and its mutations, but we express the worry in words that don’t include Covid or Delta or Omicron or Virus. Instead, we […]
Hawai`i Pacific University’s literary magazine has published “Dawn of a New Day,” the opening and first chapter of my novel RAIN SHELTERS and GHOST GODS. To read it now, click on this link:
Like most of my books and stories, I nurtured a small event for an opening, drew on people I knew to create interesting characters and put them into settings with which I grew acquainted and familiar over time. I believe in the power of story and teach that concept as “Writing from Life.” My first […]
Dainty Kua`ula Margin shells dangled from Jolie’s ears to brush her bare shoulders. The shells, a half-centimeter or so in length, reminded Eve of an infants fingernails. How many shells had the designer collected, pierced and strung to create each earring? Sixty, perhaps. Did she wear magnifying eyeglasses to poke threading holes in each tiny […]
Eve isn’t sure what to make of her aunt’s friend Jolie, with her expensive island dresses, draped shell leis, rings on every finger and the expectation that Eve will join Meg and Jolie for cocktails at 5 every night in one or the other of their apartments. On one hand, Jolie helped Meg acquire an […]
No Kalai, Forest Man to Eve who rescues him with the help of a dog, is a retired University of Hawai`i PH,D. professor and frequent visitor to Lyon Arboretum. His ordeal left him in shock, with a broken wrtst and sprained ankle, dehydration and multiple mosquito bits. He resides in the same independent living high […]
Eve arrived in Kailua to find Aunt Meg had moved to an independent high-rise one town away, where a huge oxygen tank stood alongside a hospital bed. Meg called the tank her latest lover and the bed her chaise lounge. Plastic tubes coiled like a rattle snake ready to strike, rested atop the tank. Still, […]
