Introduction What happens to a person who gets everything, and then loses it all?That question has followed me for years. Not as a history lesson, but as something closer to home. Most of us will never conquer a continent. But almost everyone climbs something. A career, a business, a dream, a family. And sooner or later, almost everyone reaches the moment … [Read more...] about What If You Could Interview Napoleon on Saint Helena?
Love and Regret
Middlemarch: What If George Eliot’s Characters Met Again?
Introduction Middlemarch by George Eliot: What If the Characters Met Again After Death?What if Dorothea Brooke could finally ask Edward Casaubon whether he had ever truly loved her?What if Lydgate and Rosamond could confront the question that haunted their marriage: Who was really responsible for their unhappiness?And what if the characters of George Eliot's … [Read more...] about Middlemarch: What If George Eliot’s Characters Met Again?
The Years We Thought We Had: A Story of Love and Waiting in Japan
Introduction Some relationships change our lives without ever becoming the lives we expected.What We Called Temporary is a modern Japanese story inspired by the emotional questions beneath Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country. Set between Tokyo and a snow-covered town in Niigata, it follows Takashi Mori, a married 52-year-old creative director who begins … [Read more...] about The Years We Thought We Had: A Story of Love and Waiting in Japan