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Tizita – A Journey of Love, Science, and Soul – Now Coming as an Audiobook!
The sequel to The History of My Body is one of my favorite Fleur books, and fan requests that I publish an audio version have persuaded me to seek out a reader who would do justice to its exploration of love and longing, the wounds of war and cultural division, and a...
‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE VOTING!
Sleep much lately? I don’t. I’m not aware of anyone who cares about the survival and soul of our democracy who isn’t experiencing profound disquiet in this intense moment in the American experiment. Not only our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren,...
BOOK READING AND SIGNING OF THE MYSTERIOUS COMPOSITION OF TEARS!
Sunday, August 27th at 4 P.M.! Held at Vroman's Pasadena Bookstore! Dear friends and fans of Fleur, I’ll be reading from my latest novel at Vroman's Local Author Event on Sunday, August 27th at 4 p.m., just a hop and a skip from Caltech and the Huntington Gardens at...
Floods and Shimmers and Survival of the Species, Oh My!
C.G. Jung famously wrote, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” And if ever there was a time to shine what Joni Mitchell called our "little lights" into the darkness, this is it. It seems that at any...
When the Earth Shakes
The grim death toll from the continuing temblors impacting Turkey and Syria has surpassed 47,000, and by all accounts it will continue to rise. Those of us living atop a hundred, intersecting earthquake faults in SoCal continue to shudder, pray for our sisters and...
HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU
As 2022 moves toward its close, I find myself reflecting on endings—heightened at this moment by the recent passing of my dear cousin Tom. (I should say that WE lost him, as Tom is being mourned by family and friends across the globe. He touched many lives. He was...
The Mysterious Composition of Tears Has Arrived!
I’m thrilled to announce the birth of my latest creative baby! A sequel to The Fleur Trilogy, The Mysterious Composition of Tears is the first book of the series, The Further Adventures of Fleur. From her youngest years—skipping and flapping and “butterfly...
Doctor Our Eyes
It's been a hell of a year. Or two. Or five. The pandemic continues to spin out new variations, and we humans continue to squabble, sometimes viciously, over masks/no masks, vaccines/anti-vax. Pretty ludicrous, given that vaccines alone have saved over 2.2 million...
Sheathing the Scissorhands
In 1990, director Tim Burton released Edward Scissorhands, a fantasy film he co-wrote with Caroline Thompson, adapted from a story he'd penned based on his own lonely and disconnected childhood. Filmed with Burton's marvelously whimsical touch, the story relates...
My Post-Traumatic Chicken Disorder- March 20, 2021
One day this past January, chuffed about having received my first Moderna vaccine the previous morning, and undoubtedly a little woozier than I realized, I had a shocking encounter with a flock of chickens. (Cue Jaws/Land Shark theme music from Saturday Night Live,...