Over a decade ago, I attended a workshop led by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. It was 2002, and their book, Proverbs of Ashes, had just been released and they were speaking with us about the research they had done in the Mideast before starting to write. One story, one image, has remained …
I have been traveling through New Mexico and the edges of the Four Corners region with my husband and we were privileged to visit a kiva, discovered in the 1930s and rebuilt using the old techniques. We were allowed to descend into the kiva, but not to take photos — although it is no …