​I have been appointed to the advisory board for Peace Corps Worldwide. The board's main goal is to enhance the impact of the Peace Corps by publishing articles by present and former members, including reviews of their publications on Substack. Find the Peace Corps Worldwide website here. Write to us at [email protected]. 

I wrote on shepherd.com about my choices for the ​best books that write about the importance of belonging in different cultures. You can check it out here.

I'll be making a presentation at this fall's Delta Kappa Gamma Area I Fall Conference on October 26. "A Life Well Lived" will go over my time growing up in Montana to my time in the Peace Corps to the recent books I've published. Download the conference flyer below.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmFcWcO2-18I was recently interviewed on the Podcast Ripollsworkshop Reads, listen on YouTube at 

I'll be on the February 22 episode of Launch Pad discussing Love in Any Language, airing on YouTube.

I was recently on the podcast Happiness Journey with Dr. Dan. Happiness Journey aims to tell uplifting stories amidst life's difficult struggles. Read more here.

Hey everyone! The latest Fault Zone anthology is out, and I contributed! Fault Zone is an award-winning anthology featuring the work of members of the San Francisco Peninsula  branch of the California Writers Club. It comes out every two years and the latest version, which debuted December 1, is Fault Zone: Detachment. I contributed a story called "Parted, Not Separated."

You can get the anthology here on Amazon or wherever fine books are sold.

Come listen to me talk about the world of Fremont-area writers on episode 98 of The Fremont Podcast, available on all major podcast platforms.

At the Cusco railway station on November 22, 1964, my Peace Corps roommate Marie and I purchased tickets for the local train to Machu Picchu, not the more expensive train for tourists. Our plan was to see the ancient wonder of the world, then visit fellow volunteer, Larry at his site in Quillabamba.

Trains were one of the few things that arrived and left on time in Peru. We hopped aboard as soon as ours pulled into the station and settled onto a couple of scratched blue vinyl seats. After a short wait, we hear three toots of the whistle and began to move. The diesel engine labored forward, then backward, to pull, then push, the six passenger cars up the zigzagging rails on the side of the mountain and out of the city. Close to the top, burning oil replaced the musty smell of red clay soil. Smoke billowed outside the window of our car. I voiced concern to the man checking our tickets.

“Just a dirty carburetor,” the man said.

For the second year in a row, seven CWC members, including myself, were invited by former CWC-NorCal leader Carole Bumpus to attend the 35th National Kidney Foundation Authors Luncheon on October 28. Over 500 readers, writers, and booklovers met at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to listen to four best-selling authors. Inspiring talks by those affected by kidney disease helped raise over half a million dollars for kidney transplants. Retired KQED radio host and author, Michael Krasny interviewed four best-selling authors about their writing processes, revealing many surprises.