There are some museums I just keep going back to - either for their new exhibits or because the permanent exhibit is so meaningful to me. The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is both to me - and if you haven’t been there, I highly recommend it for an outing this summer. JANM is “dedicated to promoting greater understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the richness and range of the Japanese American experience.”

I was invited to Fountain Valley High School's Day of Dialogue, a day focussed on conversations about diversity and inclusion on the campus. I was invited to speak to 6 classes on The Kindness of Color and how collaboration can bring positive change for all. I expected that I would be talking to US history classes, but the day turned out even better than I would have hoped!

Published…what? I don’t know any publishers, agents, and would they even be interested in this story by a new author? Do I even qualify as a new author? Self publishing sounded way too complex to me. I was looking at a huge project, strategically with thousands of details and feeling very overwhelmed.