You Are One of the Good Ones. But What Does That Make Everyone Else?
I have heard it more than once in more than one country. You are one of the good kind of immigrant. It was always meant kindly. This post is what happened when I started thinking about what it meant.
What If a Tradition Outlived the Reason It Began? Building the Culture of Marked.
How do traditions change when their original purpose disappears? I am researching the culture of my dystopian novel Marked and inviting experts to contribute.
This Is Where The Fiction Book Started in My Head.
It was February 2020. We had just landed in Ireland. I stood in front of the Famine Memorial in Dublin and started reading about Irish history.