Dealing With Conflict

Please welcome author Patricia Kiyono.

Thank you, Rue, for giving me the opportunity to meet your readers! I’m from the west side of the Mitten state, close to Lake Michigan. I’ve lived all but five years of my life here (my parents and I moved here from Japan when I was one, and I spent four years in Illinois getting my undergraduate degree) so I can’t imagine living anywhere else. My husband and I have five children, nine grandchildren and will soon celebrate the arrival of our first great-g...