Meet Me in Maine Spring 2023

Friends in Maine, let’s meet! Curiosity about seascapes and a chance to meet friends and cousins leads me to Maine. I will visit refugee resettlement agencies and any library or coffee shop which would enjoy a presentation of “Refugees Revisited” ~ stories from How to Make a Life that challenge …

What’s the Next Book?

My age will get in the way of completing the five books I’d love to write.  When I started How to Make a Life, I thought it would only take a year.  But it took four.  At this rate, I’m going to age out of life as an author.  I have enough stories, but …

Family Update

For those who read How to Make a Life and ask about the family, all members of my adopted, extended family are doing well. Tenzin Kalsang is still working, no surprise, but her husband Migmar looks after the grandkids on various days and explores Madison’s trail by bike.  Tenzin and Migmar share …

Washington DC Book Tour

Friends from my days in Peace Corps in the mountains of Lesotho, from the Board of Directors of Friends of Lesotho who I’d met only on-line, and colleagues from Peace Corps Headquarters reminded me that it is the people you know who make your first and best readers.  2010 was …