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Finding the Wild Rainbow
If not for my friend Jessica, I wouldn’t have known about the Rainbow Eucalyptus tree, let alone seen one. “What do you want from Hawaii?” I’d asked. “I want a…
Enter the End of Christmas Season
I completed the last of my Christmas tasks, baking Kruschiki, and sending two bags full to my brother-in-law, Ken, layered in plastic bags between padding. There is, as with most…
Yo-Yo Ma and Wiki
Today Wikipedia is dark. An extraordinary decision by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to protest two bills now before Congress. “The protest is aimed at the Stop Online Piracy Act in the…

Welcome! Thanks for dropping by. On this site, you’ll find both my personal writing and my professional services.
I write about memory and how the land, in my case growing up on a farm, influenced my life and my writing even when I’m writing about living in Hawaii or Mexico. I think of myself a see-far woman.
On a Kansas farm, you get used to seeing distances. I’m a thinker and I watch for connections. Often, travel leads me to a new way of seeing and new connections. But it’s all memory and the web memory weaves in our lives.