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I lived in a haunted house during my undergrad years. Whose ghost was banging through the house, moving furniture, taking small items from my room?
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Chapel Bay Secrets: A novel of small-town secrets, Japanese American history, and unexpected love
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Chapel Bay Secrets: A novel of small-town secrets, Japanese American history, and unexpected love
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The Arts and Sciences are One (from my Substack publication, Impermanent Joy)
The Arts and Sciences are One
A meandering, decades long journey that taught me an essential truth
It’s funny, the way life’s twists and turns can land a person right where they belong. Many years ago, after receiving a bachelor’s degree in music and pursuing a career as a professional violinist, I lost all confidence in my chosen path. The primary cause of the crisis was a devastating critique of m Read more of this blog post »
A meandering, decades long journey that taught me an essential truth
It’s funny, the way life’s twists and turns can land a person right where they belong. Many years ago, after receiving a bachelor’s degree in music and pursuing a career as a professional violinist, I lost all confidence in my chosen path. The primary cause of the crisis was a devastating critique of m Read more of this blog post »
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“We were loved, not passionately but enough, and we were largely ignored, which allowed for our healthy separation from the primary family. Necessity made us resourceful and brave. We were left to solve our own problems and so we did. The children you should worry about are the ones who are the singular light of their parents’ lives, the ones who hit thirty and are still calling their mom five times a day.”
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"A town - and a heroine - that stay with you!
Chapel Bay Secrets transported me to a fictional town on the California coast, near Carmel (a place I love and fondly remember celebrating my parents' 50th anniversary in years ago). Snider renders the sett" Read more of this review » |
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"Reuniting in Fragments
Richard Russo’s “Under the Falls” is framed as a dark, cinematic thriller. Following Tyler Sinclair, a rock star returning to his decaying upstate New York hometown for a benefit concert, the novel attempts to explore guilt and " Read more of this review » |
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“listening to music drift out of the spotlight onstage, cool fog rolling in off a stretch of cold black water.”
― Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
― Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“Where are they going?” Keiko asked in a hushed whisper. “Where are they taking them?” Henry shook his head. “I don’t know.” But he did know. They were heading in the direction of the train station. The soldiers were taking them away. He didn’t know where, but they were being sent packing. Maybe it was because Bainbridge was too close to the naval shipyard in Bremerton, or maybe because it was an island and it was easier to round them all up there than in a place like Seattle, where the confusion, the sheer numbers would make a similar feat impossible. It can’t happen here, Henry thought. There’s too many of them. Too many of us.”
― Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
― Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“Imagine a sorrow so deep that it batters the hatches of sleep; imagine drowning before you even realize you’ve gone under.”
― Mad Honey
― Mad Honey
“the bitter wind jumps from tree to tree like a rumor.”
― Mad Honey
― Mad Honey
“Of course, sit down.” His mouth quirks up on one side, just like Asher’s does. “But you don’t have to be so formal. I mean…it’s just me.” What he means is: We used to sleep together. I used to be able to play your body like it was a symphony. What I hear is: When you’ve slapped someone so hard you draw blood, why stand on ceremony?”
― Mad Honey
― Mad Honey
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