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Have you noticed the popularity of Asian authors? Best Seller lists are highlighting so many and I wanted to make an effort to expand into that experience. I first became enthralled with something Asian as a young teen when I saw the movie, “Sayonara”, with it’s post WWII-Korean War theme which introduced me to aContinue reading “I Recommend my ASIAN Connection!”

How many of you loved reading history books? Where is that thunderous applause? Most of my history textbooks were so crammed with names, dates and places that the context of it’s importance could be easily lost or forgotten after the test! At least, that was my experience. Hopefully today they have improved. Historical Fiction, onContinue reading “Why Historical Fiction is the Best Way To Get “History“”

There are tons of books about WWII, the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust. This was the war of all wars with atrocities never before seen. What makes this book stand out? It doesn’t take us into the concentration camps. We don’t experience the violence and cruelty of the soldiers in the streets. What we doContinue reading “All the Light We Cannot See…a MUST READ!”

I know there will be a rocky road before we can heal as a nation. President-Elect Biden is the perfect person to heal the soul of the nation and allow us to come back to what we expect of the America we love. We are a people of inclusiveness and kindness and need to haveContinue reading “Decency, Hope, Empathy DEMOCRACY HAS WON!”

The presence of illegal militia groups at recent racial justice protests increases the chance of violence and has already proved deadly. — Read on http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-09-22/the-problem-with-militias-and-the-constitution

We have all heard about the value of education and know that it’s benefits will produce results. But what if we are sheltered and dominated by parents who believe that education is a way for the government to interfere in our lives and take away our freedom? What if that type of conspiracy theory isContinue reading “Extremists and Education”

Ruth Bader Ginsberg knew how to move people in a way I cannot do nearly as well. I am a big voice. I get emotional and outraged easily and often. I have a temper, I snap too soon. I care about injustice as did Ginsberg but in her infinite wisdom she chose to make herContinue reading “How RBG changed our lives quietly but effectively.”

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2020 has become THE PERFECT STORM. I come to a lake in the Northern California mountains for five months each year. This is our 25th year. When things are going well, weather-wise, it is truly paradise. In the last 15 years, however, the weather patterns have changed. We always have had forest fires in theContinue reading “THE 2020 APOCALYPSE: The Covid Pandemic, Raging Fires and Smoke Pollution, Multiple Hurricanes, Economic and Job Crisis”