“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”

- Elie Wiesel

When Masao Abe, World War II hero, revealed his life to me through years of interviews, I began to think about American history through a different lens. We have such a rich history; but we also have pieces that are shameful. One of my passions has become to attempt the synthesis of both the glory as well as the shame that brought us to this place in history - this time we currently occupy.

Although I have a B.A. from the University of Washington, a M.Ed. from Western Washington University and a M.A. from Seattle University, as an author and biographer, I seek information as a human, as one who is learning. My goal is to take complicated history and present it through a narrative that is easy to digest.

We’re in complicated times. And my voice isn’t one that will provide much clarity with regard to current social complexities or political policies, but I am certain that many of us have been taught history from a singular perspective, that of colonizers. And until we fully understand our history, we cannot heal as a nation.