Welcome to Words Between the Cracks, my new blog to accompany my website and upcoming book, Local Journey: A Memoir of Learning to Love. To be frank, I have been writing my memoir since 2003. I don’t often share this, but the memoir would not be the book that it is if I hadn’t taken all that time: including my three trips to Japan and my deep healing, including my last hospitalization.
This blog will be a place to reflect more deeply on aspects of my memoir, including enhancing more deeply what I write about in my memoir and bringing up ideas that I want to introduce for the second book I have in mind, with a broad focus on human nature, how we manage to cooperate in a small world and the evolution and relations of language, thought and emotion: in some offshoot from my first book.
I love to ponder and think about human nature. As I have mentioned elsewhere, my BA in linguistics and anthropology have made me an amateur linguistic anthropologist as well as a peer specialist and writer. These experiences are reflected in my writings and will show up in my bloggings. I have a unique background that gives a substantial, informed perspective, be it in the memoir, blog or second book.
I will be posting short pieces on this blog that relate to both my memoir and my second book: my musings. Join me as I venture down the path of stepping out into the publishing world!
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