The year of the fire tiger, which should mean that you rise upward: your energy is expansive. Halley’s comet reached its perihelion (its closest point to the sun), during its second visit to our solar system in the last 100 years. Bob Hawke was prime minister, and looked a lot like my father. This was…
Tag: memoir
SS Ming Hua
No 200 words today! That’s because, instead, I’ve written a guest post/piece of short memoir about my time aboard the SS Ming Hua, as a guest post on Rebecca Jessen’s blog. To read about the pleasures of cruising the Pacific aboard this wonder of the 1980s, take a trip back in time to Ming Hua memories…
Green Vanilla Tea
Green Vanilla Tea is a stunning and moving work of memoir. I have read it several times, and wept every time. I was fortunate enough to read this book when it was in its first throes of being written, and to work with Marie as she wrangled her and her family’s story onto the page….


