Posts Tagged ‘social justice’
Excerpt from Book Three (yet to be released!)
Share This: Here’s an excerpt from book three, The Money Masquerade. This is from chapter twenty, at the climax of the plot: I glanced around the lavish subterranean mansion; At least twenty feet below ground. I was in a 9,000 square-foot bunker with thirty-seven rooms. Today I’d enjoyed a dip in the pool,…
Read MoreMasks of Morality (Book 1)
Has America normalized violence as a way of life? MASKS OF MORALITY is a contemporary rollercoaster about a woman who goes from a high-tech marketing executive to becoming obsessed with changing the world after becoming a mother. It’s a story of moral conscience and using positive energy in every choice we make. A message to look…
Read MoreHumanity Before Hegemony!
HUMANITY BEFORE HEGEMONY! A simple excerpt that I feel speaks for the underlying message behind the story in MASKS OF MORALITY: Humanity has such incredible talent and abilities, such vast beauty within each of ourselves. If we only carry in our hearts the awareness of unity among individual forms, we could eliminate so much pointless…
Read MoreBooks: Where Words can Change the World.
“Each woman who never wrote a word…still lives.” ~Virginia Woolf Every year since its launch in 2015, I’ve attended the Bay Area Book Festival in downtown Berkeley. I love it, not because of my bookworm ways but the festival’s theme fits the values I hold dear to my heart. It’s a socially conscious…
Read MoreThanksgiving “His”- story: Whose Story?
THANKSGIVING “HIS”-STORY: WHO’S STORY? This past weekend, I attended a community fundraising event at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley. This vibrant venue promotes social justice, arts participation, and intercultural understanding. The event I attended, Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving, brought together artist, activist, and community to acknowledge the genocide of ten to thirty million Native Americans and…
Read MoreWhy I Write about Human Compassion and Morality
Share This: WHY I WRITE ABOUT HUMAN COMPASSION AND MORALITY One might ask why my blog title does not mention politics. My cover design brands my debut novel as “a political twister.” And my answer is simple. Although my book is political, it is not about politics. MASKS OF MORALITY is a story about family…
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