Well, maybe it was actually to get it written and published so Sylvia Mendez and I could have the long-told verbal story, written and in our hands! Now that it's been a year since it was available on Amazon, my unofficial book launch date, it’s a good time for me to reflect on The Kindness of Color - Year 1! Here are a few things I have learned.

This year, I got to meet two men who lived on those farms back in the 1920s. What amazing stories they had to tell about growing up in what they called “chosen area, sort of a gold coast” as children on the farms. Both remember coming to the area in 1927-28, just as the road, now known as PCH, was taking shape.