More About Eve
Aunt Meg tells Eve, “You were mildewing back there on Puget Sound. You’re damn lucky I’ve lived in the islands long enough to own a place, real estate’s so damn expensive.”
Eve in the Garden (at Lyon Arboretum)
In my new literary novel, RAIN SHELTERS and GHOST GODS, we follow our main character, Eve Sorenson, from Kailua Beach on Windward Oahu across the Pali to Lyon Arboretum in Manoa Valley. After finding a Hawaiin man, Noa Kala;, recumbent and needing rescue, she meets with Sean Higa, a university professor who works with native […]
What is a Ghost God
“So, what is a Ghost God?” a reader asks. “In this story, the Ghost God is a Hawaiian mythical figure that first appears to the protagonist Eve Sorenson as a barking dog when she arrives at Lyon Arboretum in O`ahu’s Manoa Valley. Eve is a Mainland haole of Swedish decent, not a Hawaiian. She’s been […]
RAIN SHELTERS and GHOST GODS
My latest novel, RAIN SHELTERS and GHOST GODS, got off TO a rocky start with a case of books arriving battered and torn, after a delay message from the shipper saying there had been a mechanical malfunction. Okay, that accounted for part of the cover being torn off of one book and possibly for some […]
Then Comes Raymond Walkingstick
The January day after Raymond Walkingstick retired from his Seattle law firm, he visited Hansen’s Landing for the first time in thirty-five years. Hansens and the Landing once gave him reason to live. He needed them again, to renew his spirit. There were times when he felt his spirit had been born at the Landing, […]
Arne Hedstrom, Kelda Hansen’s Husband ~ A Character Sketch
Arne Hedstrom shoved aside the family size pizza box and belched. He’d bet soup was on at the Landing. It wasn’t that he expected Kelda to have dinner ready when he walked in the door, not every night, four out of five seemed reasonable. A working man needs a hearty, homecooked meal at the end […]
Kelda Hansen of Hansen’s Landing ~ A Character Sketch
Therapists at Mid-Sound Mental Health often joked that all their phone calls were emergencies, but Kelda startled, dropping her pen, when the emergency-call buzzer rang through to her office. The receptionist rarely interrupted a session in progress. “Kelda Hansen here,” she said, turning away from her clients, a bickering mother and daughter in her office […]
Ragnar Hansen of Hansen’s Landing ~ A Character Sketch
The day before Ragnar Hansen took to his bed to die, he planted the last of a thousand fir seedlings, a little something to replace all the old growth trees Hansens logged over the years. A little something for Kelda, daughter of the Landing, who would inherit all forty acres with its old house, four […]
Writing From Life Aging, Alcohol issues, Divorce, Family history, Family saga, Family therapy, Family traditions, Indian reservation, Land development, Logging, Love, Marriage, Mental health, Murder, Native American, Natural world, Norwegian community, Pacific Northwest, Police investigation, Relationships, Scandinavian culture, Spiritual awareness, Waterfront home
HANSEN’S LANDING ~~~ Behind the Scenes
Hansen’s Landing is set on a small Puget Sound bay where Norwegian immigrants in the late 1800s settled alongside Native Americans who had lived there for thousands of years and fished the bay. One of the small autonomous villages was home to the Suquamish Indians. Immigrants who came for the abundant timber used the bay […]
I Follow Somerset Maugham’s Rules for Writing …
Somerset Maugham is quoted as telling a writing class “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” If you’re like me, you’ve taken writing classes, learned rules, followed some and rejected others, and found your own way to share your writing. I write fiction, creative nonfiction and educational […]
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