Category Archives: internment
Review of The Magical Red Kimono
My friend and fellow author, Kathleen Rodgers, posted an insightful review of The Magical Red Kimono on her blog last night. After receiving and reading her copy of my book, she told me she was going to post a review … Continue reading
And Just Where Do You Think You’re Going?
My Broken Dolls characters spoke to me loud and clear this week, and here’s what they collectively said: “Oh, no, you don’t. Just where do you think you’re going? You get yourself right back here and listen to us!” You … Continue reading
Site of Rohwer Internment Camp Gets Grant Money
The KUAR website has announced that Arkansas will receive $400,000 in Federal grant money for its projects devoted to the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II. I visited Rohwer in November, 2009 as part of my research for my novel, … Continue reading
Site of Rohwer Internment Camp Gets Grant Money
The KUAR website has announced that Arkansas will receive $400,000 in Federal grant money for its projects devoted to the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II. I visited Rohwer in November, 2009 as part of my research for my novel, … Continue reading
It’s a Small World After All
It’s a world of laughter A world of tears It’s a world of hopes And a world of fears There’s so much that we share That it’s time we’re aware It’s a small world after all When I was … Continue reading
A Conversation with Sachiko Kimura
This is the first of three conversations I will have with the protagonists of my novel, The Red Kimono. The book follows the lives of nine-year old Japanese American, Sachiko Kimura, her seventeen-year old brother, Nobu, and his African-American friend, Terrence Harris, from … Continue reading
A Conversation with Sachiko Kimura
This is the first of three conversations I will have with the protagonists of my novel, The Red Kimono. The book follows the lives of nine-year old Japanese American, Sachiko Kimura, her seventeen-year old brother, Nobu, and his African-American friend, Terrence Harris, from … Continue reading
Honor
“All of us can’t stay in the [internment] camps until the end of the war. Some of us have to go to the front. Our record on the battlefield will determine when you will return and how you will be … Continue reading
Synopsis of Broken Dolls
It hit me on the drive in to work today. What have I done? In the synopsis I originally presented in this blog, I told the ending to the book! My apologies to those of you who already read the … Continue reading
Synopsis of Broken Dolls
It hit me on the drive in to work today. What have I done? In the synopsis I originally presented in this blog, I told the ending to the book! My apologies to those of you who already read the … Continue reading
