Yarrow House

Future Conditional
Wanting to know what’s coming, how long it will take, is probably hard-wired, but that doesn't make it any easier to live with when it come to the slow decline of a parent.

Sailing to Forever One rainy November night in 1969, in Tacoma, we decided to sail around the world.

I'm Not Color Blind: Race in My Life
Why am I not color blind? How is it, after all these years of valuing interracial equity, that racial awareness is still alive in me? And more importantly, what can I do to erase that automatic racial awareness?

Perils of an Expat in Japan: Demotion in Status
Most white Americans never have to deal with the effects of racism. When I lived in Japan, I had the opportunity to experience firsthand what my fellow, dark-skinned Americans live with all their lives.

On Producing a Book with My Mother

Also

Check out the Reading Room for more stories and poems.

Available from Court Street Press:
Taught by Life: Art and Stories, by Roosevelt Lewis
Take Time, Yah: Tales from Liberia, and 
You Never Try, You Never Know: Six Years in Liberia, by Ruth Jacobson 

For the family, a memorial to my grandmother, Signe Fries Hanson.

My neighborhood project, the Charlestown Hillclimb development, is complete. Now it's weeding and watering while the plants get established.