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While reviewing the messes and contradictions we encounter unexpectedly, a friend asked, “Is there a reason for anything?” How profound. The friend’s query lingered, but went unanswered as hope and faith influence a belief there is an explanation for events. While grasping any meaning can be elusive, I did become a part of my own stories – without intention. History changed personal reality – more than once – so I write about women in crisis, hoping the narratives will help. During the 1970s, I returned to college, graduating from University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature; briefly attended law school and worked on a Master’s in Adult Education at San Francisco State. When at UCI, my poetry was accepted in its English and Spanish publications. I am a co-author of the TRUTH is on the WALLS (Biography 2011), published by david philip, an imprint of New Africa Books, Cape Town, South Africa; author of THE GIRLS ARE BACK (Memoir 2013, currently under revision) and ELEPHANT TEARDROPS: the unforeseen passage into homelessness (Autobiography 2017), Thaga’s Tree Books. I also have completed a small collection of poetry, entitled Heart Drops (2013), a couple of online book reviews and articles. I live in Central California and am the mother of two daughters; one granddaughter attends an out-of-state university, my grandson has autism. Travels include Baja, Botswana, Canada, England, France, India, Manila, Mexico, Nicaragua, South Africa and the United States. I arrived in Oxford, England when the present felt suffocating due to the island country’s distant past. Standing in Monet’s Garden, northern France, I recalled parts my entire family played in World War II history. The pilgrimage to India was mesmerizing; nothing prepared me for the land of Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Nehru and Jinnah (the father of Pakistan). I flew to Nicaragua in 1984, prior to the first democratic election in fifty years. As a guest of the Sandinista Cultural Workers Association, I arrived at a time the U.S. planned to bomb Managua. We prepared for attack. In 1988, I stayed illegally in a South African township during the apartheid regime, returning for a book launch in 2011. America remains my Garden of Possibility, filled with wonderful people who go without recognition.
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