A New Citizen of the World: Oliver Miguel Connally
How do you fall in love with a person you’ve never met? I can’t explain it, but I know it happens, because it happened to me. I have a new grandson, born a week ago in Peru, and I love him dearly. Please meet Oliver Miguel Connally, who made his...A Technophobe Observes the Twitter Game
Last week I clipped an article out the newspaper. Yes, please note that I used actual scissors to cut a piece of what is an actual newspaper. My husband and I are holdout subscribers, though our local newspaper has shrunk noticeably in recent years and we do wonder...Our Art: A Wonderful Friend, A Terrible Master
My brother, Walt Hampton, is a very talented musician and also a highly skilled music teacher. In fact, if you have a child in public school, it may be that your child’s elementary music teacher uses one of Walt’s books on teaching marimba. Perhaps the teacher has...Drowning in Music, Tasting It, Touching It: Imagery For the Indescribable
Last week at a book reading I met author Shannon Huffman Polson http://aborderlife.com/ and heard her read from her memoir North of Hope. It is a story of her grief pilgrimage, travelling to a spot in the Arctic wilderness where her father and her stepmother were...
Welcome!
I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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