Luxor East & West
The sights, sounds and colors of Luxor, east and west.
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Egypt at Last
Wednesday I return to Egypt for two months to continue work on my childhood memoir INTO THE WORLD and to start on Throne of Desire, fifth book in the Night Angels Chronicles series. This is a photo of my parents in Egypt, June 1967, shortly before the 6 Day War. How well I remember this! […]
Read More Egypt at LastA DANGEORUS WOMAN: Into the Light
On Valentine’s Day I head to Luxor, Egypt to write for two months. Valentine’s Day is always bittersweet, for it is when private investigator Casey Cohen left this earth. In 2000, shortly before he died, he gave me a series of fantastical letters sent to death row inmate, Maureen ‘Miki’ McDermott and made me promise […]
Read More A DANGEORUS WOMAN: Into the LightRules of the Fighting Game excerpt from A DANGEROUS WOMAN
by Karen Hunt “Guys Beat Up Girls, Girls Beat Up Girls, But Girls Never Beat Up Guys.” I am sharing this chapter, which delves into my friendships with Sister Janet Harris and Casey Cohen. There are those who did their best to sweep what happened under the mat and me along with it. One day […]
Read More Rules of the Fighting Game excerpt from A DANGEROUS WOMANHow I Packed Up and Took Off to See the World
Check out the link to my essay on how I freed myself of extra baggage and took off traveling two years ago to find inspiration for my writing. Thank you Amy Oestreicher! “It doesn’t matter if I am in a café in Phoenix, wrapped in blankets on a freezing night in the Sahara Desert, or […]
Read More How I Packed Up and Took Off to See the WorldINTO THE WORLD
My World Project New Millennium Writings When I was awarded the New Millennium Writings Nonfiction Award for Reflections from Istanbul, an excerpt from my childhood memoir INTO THE WORLD, I was asked to write an introduction, something about my motivation and approach to writing. I recently received the print edition of the anthology and I re-read […]
Read More INTO THE WORLDA Beautiful Journey and Remembering Casey Cohen
I have never, quite honestly, cared much about money or possessions or having a permanent home. My books, however, have been with me for over thirty years, a few more than fifty. These Eskrima sticks have been with me close to twenty years. Other sticks have come and gone. But these I have wrapped and […]
Read More A Beautiful Journey and Remembering Casey CohenFor All the Girls on the Schoolyard
Suddenly, instead of the Zombie Apocalypse, I was someplace far worse: bac on the schoolyard with all those entitled boys, and me wanting to join in the games and them pushing me out.
Read More For All the Girls on the SchoolyardTHANK YOU, MICHELLE OBAMA
Photo is of Michelle Obama and her daughters in South Africa. Thank you Michelle Obama for drawing our attention to the historical fact that the White House was built by slaves. This is something I never considered before. It is now an incredible picture that I will forever hold in my mind. I cannot even begin to imagine how […]
Read More THANK YOU, MICHELLE OBAMAWHAT SAVES ME IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES
A BEAUTIFUL WORLD…AND A VIOLENT, FEARFUL HUMAN RACE Here I am in this little Pueblo in Costa Rica, overlooking Lake Arenal. Book of Angels was just released, volume two in the Night Angels Chronicles, and I’m doing publicity. I have jumped into the infinity pool. Like Sera in the River Styx. The cries of the suffering rise to […]
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Break Free 