The title could be Writing While Frightened, Writing While Anxious, Writing While Worried (www, but that stands for something else, so let’s not use that). Most of us are worried about the virus and its mutations, but we express the worry in words that don’t include Covid or Delta or Omicron or Virus. Instead, we […]
Hawai`i Pacific University’s literary magazine has published “Dawn of a New Day,” the opening and first chapter of my novel RAIN SHELTERS and GHOST GODS. To read it now, click on this link:
Like most of my books and stories, I nurtured a small event for an opening, drew on people I knew to create interesting characters and put them into settings with which I grew acquainted and familiar over time. I believe in the power of story and teach that concept as “Writing from Life.” My first […]
Eve isn’t sure what to make of her aunt’s friend Jolie, with her expensive island dresses, draped shell leis, rings on every finger and the expectation that Eve will join Meg and Jolie for cocktails at 5 every night in one or the other of their apartments. On one hand, Jolie helped Meg acquire an […]
No Kalai, Forest Man to Eve who rescues him with the help of a dog, is a retired University of Hawai`i PH,D. professor and frequent visitor to Lyon Arboretum. His ordeal left him in shock, with a broken wrtst and sprained ankle, dehydration and multiple mosquito bits. He resides in the same independent living high […]
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.”
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
