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As a lifelong residence of New Orleans, Louisiana and metro area, Jimmie Martinez, at 76 years old, writes about the city he loves and the turbulent times he grew up in. Martinez is the author of four novels set in New Orleans: The Battle for New Orleans: The Casino Wars, Rigged, Righteous Road, which was awarded the Editor’s Choice from iUniverse, and Cajun Chameleon. The four-term Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, the quintessential Cajun, said Cajun Chameleon is “Masterfully written. Jimmie captures the true essence of life in the 60s in South Louisiana.”

Jimmie’s interest includes traveling, […]

When Donna Dechen Birdwell was about ten years old, she became obsessed with the idea that if she was thinking with her brain, she ought to be able to think how it works! She’s been trying to wrap her mind around reality (and how humans experience it) ever since. After a brief stint as a newspaper reporter, she made a career out of anthropology – that utterly boundless science of humankind and how we got here – and then sidestepped into Buddhist philosophy and then art and photography and writing stories that tend to fall somewhere in the neighborhood of […]

Karen Hill Anton wrote the column “Crossing Cultures” for The Japan Times for 15 years. She lectures widely on her experience of cross-cultural adaptation and raising four bilingual, bicultural children. Originally from New York City, she’s achieved second-degree mastery in Japanese calligraphy and has lived with her husband William Anton in rural Japan since 1975.

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The View From Breast Pocket Mountain, a memoir, tells my experience of crossing borders and cultures, creating a life, and finding contentment in a far-off country. It’s a story that gives a glimpse of a life not designed or […]