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Author Archives: Kaimana
Get a FREE copy of La Chiripa — limited time offer
From now until 11:59pm Monday you can get a FREE copy of LA CHIRIPA for Kindle. That’s right. For the next 24 hours, you can get a copy of my — admittedly fantastic — novel for absolutely zero dollars. Just … Continue reading
Wolff & van Loon Dual Book Launch Saturday
Come to Breakwater Books this Saturday afternoon for tea and a treat–two generations of novelists! Friends, House, and BSG on Steroids! Katje van Loon began writing Bellica at the age of thirteen. Twelve years later–imagine how many revisions!–she is ready … Continue reading
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A Day Late–excerpt from novel I’m currently writing
Personally, I prefer to spend as few of my days as possible in Waikiki—or anywhere on Oahu, for that matter—but it was Spence’s wish to revisit the Arizona memorial and old Honolulu, if any of it was still recognisable from … Continue reading
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20 Precepts to sovereign womanhood
As my daughter approaches the end of her first quarter-century, I want to pass on what I’ve learned in my first half-century about women’s money, finance and prosperity. As the saying goes, “Too soon we get old and too late … Continue reading
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Fireworks
Today’s Natural News newsletter reported the recovery of the Gerson Tapes, which apparently had been missing. These recorded interviews with cancer patients by Charlotte Gerson, director of an alternative-care cancer institute safely located out of the US, reminded me of … Continue reading
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly-wugly Worthday
Tomorrow’s another birthday, likely to be spent in a state of moderate terror triggered by a single expression caught on the face of an ultrasound technician yesterday. Normally, I like my birthday. It was always the last or second-last day … Continue reading
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The Full Nicaragua–Part II
The Full Nicaragua—Part II Delightful as it might have been to bump our way straight back to Las Penitas after my survival of the El Cerro Negro torture test and sink, battered and bruised, into a sling chair with a … Continue reading
Merry Possibly Posthumous Christmas
Merry Potentially Posthumous Christmas What’s the perfect Christmas gift for someone who has lately been saved from cancer (not to mention the fact that she also lost her mother and a beloved dog in the same year)? Isn’t it obvious? … Continue reading
Walls
The theme of the New Year’s Immanence: Wal…ls? “Something there is, that does not love a wall….” Something, perhaps, but not humans. We love walls from Pyramus and Thisbe to Wall-E. We are the only large apes on the … Continue reading
Moonlight in Nicaragua
Moonlight in Nicaragua The moon is full to bursting as I take my evening constitutional at 9:30 p.m. The security guard knows what I do at this time of night, but stops me in friendly fashion anyway, to tell me … Continue reading
