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 …
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 …
Thanks to a suggestion from friend and musician Katie Ping and the wonderful translation work of Julie Stroh, Braille Transcriber at WCBVI, How to Make a Life is now available in Braille. In two impressively heavy volumes and 399 Braille pages, the book can be borrowed from the Wisconsin Center …
I was thrilled to learn that the Wisconsin Historical Society Press has contracted a professional actress, Claire Slemmer, to render How to Make a Life from the written to the spoken word. When asked to provide pronunciation for non-English words, I was amazed I had included so many Tibetan, Hindi, …
