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Not My Wooden Spoons My local PBS radio station, KQED, recently did a story on multi-racial people on its morning talk show, Forum. I wasn’t a guest, but I got to be in the slideshow on the website. In the picture, I am holding a giant decorative wooden spoon from the Philippines. The caption [...] And every small tragedy is also large. The anniversary of the September eleventh attacks was made somehow more personal this year. September tenth is my niece Michel’s birthday. She would have been twenty-three. Her family and friends gathered at my sister’s house to celebrate her life. For a few hours, all the media stories about [...] "China Doll's Gift" by humbholthead, used under Creative Commons License It happened again. A young woman days away from graduating from college was the victim in a murder-suicide. Marcory “Cindy” Caliguiran was 25. The man who murdered her and her friend Kyle Williams was her 54-year-old husband. It happened in one of the parking [...]
Brian, Mateo, and I went to WonderCon this weekend. In years past, the weather was invariably rainy during this comics convention, but this year it was wonderfully warm and sunny. We spent a couple of hours outside of the convention hall each afternoon, having tea and lunch at Samovar and then [...] My principles, when it comes to the art of fiction, tend to be molten: hotly held and hotly defended, but ultimately a fluid thing, able to be shaped and re-formed. But real-life tragedy has a way of turning principles from debatable points of discussion into immutable, inarguable doctrine. One of my principles, which I often [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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