Welcome!

Some thoughts, a video, and an offer to my friends in New England

And so the holiday season is upon us - corrupt around the edges because of its hysterical consumerism, but beautiful at its core because it is the one time of the year when our thoughts turn towards giving.

I've enjoyed a wonderful year speaking, writing, and meeting friends I've made through my books. A writer's world is a strange one where you develop long distance intimacies based on your writings, and it is always a revelation - and, almost invariably, a wonderful one -- when these relationships result in meetings face to face.

I'm posting a video of a wonderful event that took place at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Gustavus had honored me by making The Wolf at Twilight their common book to be read by all incoming freshmen. This video shows my talk and the beautiful and heartfelt presentations of Martin and Raymond Sensmeier, two absolutely stellar men - a son and father - who were kind enough to come down from their homes in Alaska to share the stage with me and speak about their experience as Native people living in a contemporary world.

I hope you will listen closely to Ray's talk. It held the audience spellbound and has much worth hearing. Events such as this are the reason I continue to work on Native subjects and themes: they provide me with an opportunity to give Native voices a chance to be heard.

In the next few months I will be traveling to New England for a speaking engagement. I would love to put some other stops on my schedule. It you have a venue anywhere in New England where you would like me to speak, please contact me. I get to your beautiful part of the country far less than I would like. I would dearly love to meet more of my readers and to share my writing with new audiences. No dates have yet been set, so anything is possible.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. Remember those who no one else remembers. Keep in mind that for them this can be the loneliest season even as it can be the richest and most joyful for those of us who are blessed to be surrounded by friends and family.

I look forward to another year of growing, sharing, and learning. I wish the same for each of you.