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Bohemian Artists, Mid-1800s

Bohemian. A word often uttered with a mix of admiration, confusion, and mockery. Usually we think of a bohemian as someone who’s unconventional, footloose and carefree. Quite likely, she’s also an artist or maybe, a writer.

A place called Bohemia does exist. In the Czech Republic. But that’s not where the concept of a Bohemian—as we often use the term —comes from. In fact, if you were to associate Bohemian with a place, you’re more likely to think of Paris. For good reasons.

The mid-1800s was a ...

A Closer Look At Our Multicultural Society: Ebook and Paperback Giveaways

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, as diverse and big a melting pot as any you’d find in American cosmopolitan areas. I’ve lived in and traveled to Asian and European cities. Been exposed to many cultures and all kinds of people. So, you could say it’s inevitable that my experiences find their way into my fiction and other articles I write.

Want to know vicariously what it’s like, being a person who comes from a different (or mixed) race or (blended) culture? Sample the work of authors of th...

Stark Truth: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

My latest novel, The Shade Under the Mango Tree, takes the reader to a foreign culture. I’ve traveled to Asia, Europe, and parts of North Africa so it might have been inevitable that I would write about experiencing other cultures in my fiction. But more than the act and pleasure of traveling, it’s “living” (no matter how superficial and transient) in the cultures I visit that stays with me.

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The pandemic has vastly curtailed travel but, thanks to books and other written sources, we can still d...

Our Surreal Lives in a Virtual World: Apropos my latest novel

Pandemic life is strange. We’re forced to live even more in a virtual world.

I watch as my niece’s two little girls argue over who gets to use the iPad first. Their mother has ruled that each only gets thirty minutes to watch or do what they want on it. And only after they’ve done their pandemic, home-supervised “schoolwork.” She doesn’t want them to spend hours staring at screens. During the minutes they have control of it, they lose track of time and become oblivious (deaf and blind) to what’...