What It Is To Be Human -- The full (clumsy) title of the book was  "hope lies in our ability to bring back to awareness What It Is To Be Human." Awkward perhaps, but I  like what it says. Published 1994, now  OUT of PRINT    A book of stories that I experienced, showing that people in other cultures see a different reality than we see. They think differently, certainly judge differently. And that is interesting and important to know, I think.
Authors are supposed to promote their own books. I don’t know how. Fortunately, the book found its own readers from one to another
Original Wisdom; Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing. The same book, edited and given another title, published in 2001 (it came out a few weeks before 9-11). It is still in print, and, as its first manifestation, is finding readers.
This book is translated in Croatian, Dutch,  Korean, and currently (2010) being translated in German..

Ha’ina Mai Ka Puana; Let the Story Be Told -- More stories, from a later time in my life. Many of them of Hawai'i and other islands of the Pacific.
Not in print, but you can download it, if you want to read it. You may pass it on, make as many copies as you want. Under the Common Copyright agreement, the only thing you cannot do is make money from it.

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SPIRAL  Web published only. Free download. Don’t know exactly how to say what it is about. It is a novel, that means it is fiction. It may be in the future, or in another future, or in a parallel universe. It is not science fiction: not much science in it. Nor is it fantasy, exactly. Ah… read it. Oh, and the title -- that cannot be changed; nor the all caps. I have no idea why that should be, but every time I tried to think of a better title, or just a different spelling, something in me said, No.

Rain of Ashes -- published 2007, available through or at your favorite book seller.
Raves of praise (on amazon). This too is a novel. Fiction. I find it very easy to feel it as real,  but it is just a story.
And I have written a sequel, called ANANSÍ, so far only available in pdf (e-book format). You can download the whole book (click on the name)
Anansí is, strictly, not a 'sequel' because it deals only with "the people from Africa: after they leave the cabin the north woods...

A Book of Dreams -- Published 2007, also available through your favorite book seller.
Dreams were the roots, the seeds of these stories. The book is not about how to interpret dreams. The meaning of a dream is for the dreamer only. Dreams are an important part of my life. As important as breathing, perhaps. I like this book. I am blessed because, on the whole, I like my own work. I like my paintings, and I often like what I write and now and then I delight when finding just the right few words. Or, they find me.


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Last updated june 2010