
I’ll share from my work tracing ancestors across centuries, exploring how their unresolved experiences move through generations, along with reflections on how intuition is shaped by research and how ancestral and collective history becomes narrative.
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Swabia, Late Thirteenth Century
In earlier centuries, people lived in small settlements, bound through kin and shared labor. Land was not owned so much as used—fields worked, forests gathered from, boundaries understood but not fixed. Safe...
About twenty years ago, I was visiting Santa Sabina with a friend, taking a lunch break after a walk along the North Bay at China Camp State Park. As we sat with our cups of tea in the quiet of the Dominican retreat center, I said, a little...
Beguines emerged in the Low Countries in the late 12th century as lay religious women living in semi-independent communities without taking permanent vows. They offered a rare path for women outside marriage—widows, unmarried women, and tho...
Author in Yogyakarta, 1996
As I come close to finishing the last of my stories set in Java, I notice a quiet sadness. Not because something ends, but because I am leaving a world I did not realize I had entered so deeply. These are the las...
Central Java, Singhasari–Majapahit Transition, c. 1200–1300
In Central Java in the centuries before the rise of Majapahit, village life moved between field, craft, and ritual, shaped by older animist traditions interwoven with Hindu-Buddhi...
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