It snowed, finally. We’ve been waiting for months, restless and agitated. Have you ever seen your child settle more deeply into slumber after you tuck them under the blanket? That’s how it feels here. I live in the high-altitude desert of Northern New Mexico. Deserts often invoke images of Saharan sands, but this desert sprawls […]
Journey Through Snow & Dreams
This is an excerpt from The Crown of Light, the fourth novel in the award-winning Ari Ara Series.The Crown of Light, the newest novel in the Ari Ara Series, has completed its Community Publishing Campaign. We will be releasing the book to the wider market, including here on our website, in Spring 2022. Thanks for […]
The Changes & The Crossings
This is an excerpt from The Crown of Light, the fourth novel in the award-winning Ari Ara Series. We will be releasing the book to all online bookstores, including here on our website, in Spring 2022. Thanks for your patience. Please get on our email list to hear when it’s available. Note: The Paika is […]
Alaren and the Huntress
This is an excerpt from The Crown of Light, the newest novel in the Ari Ara Series. We will be releasing the book to all online bookstores, including here on our website, in Spring 2022. Thanks for your patience. Please get on our email list to hear when it’s available.. “Tell her the first Alaren […]
Ari Ara’s Books Challenge Violence – She
The Ari Ara Series Challenges The Glorification of Violence & WarWe need these stories now, more than ever before. In a culture addicted to violence, your support of Ari Ara’s novels is powerful. Ari Ara doesn’t just live in a utopia of peace. She and her friends challenge the culture of war. They use active […]
A Gift For The Future
Today, a child was born, tiny hands curling and unfurling with the startled shock of cool air on wet skin, oxygen flooding into newly-opened lungs as she cries upon entering this strange new world. This child will likely live to see 2100. The date hangs, inconceivable, futuristic, but now within the span of a single […]
Make Memorial Day About Peace
Make Memorial Day About Peace We live in a war culture. Let’s change it to a peace culture.. The rumble of 20,000 motorcycles roars up the highway to an annual festival across the mountains. It’s Memorial Day Weekend. The dual anthems of US militarism and consumerism are playing across the country. Meanwhile, I’ve got the […]
Great News! Ari Ara Wins A Second Silver...
Ari Ara Wins Silver Nautilus Award!Desert Song is the second novel to win this social justice fiction honor. Great news! Desert Song has just won a Silver Nautilus Award – the second book in the Ari Ara Series to be honored in this way! The Nautilus Awards are for socially-engaged fiction and I’m tickled pink to have two of […]
Ditch the Draft, Once and For All
It’s outdated. It’s dysfunctional. It’s hated by most of the populace. No, we’re not talking about the line at the DMV. We’re talking about the Selective Service and the military draft. For decades, young men have had to register. Now, congress is considering expanding draft registration to women. Here’s a better idea: let’s abolish the […]
Visionary Inspiration and Practical Stra...
By Marissa Mommaerts “Winds of Change,” the third part of the trilogy that began with The Dandelion Insurrection, is so rich that I simultaneously want to share it with every visionary changemaker I know, while at the same time rereading it over and over until I absorb every drop of wisdom, hope and strategy into […]