Leke Dukagjini, author of the Kanun, the ancient code of Albanian law I recently got an email from my friend, Antonia Young, English author (Women Who Become Men), ethnographer of Albania, and president of the Balkans Peace Park Project-UK (of which I am a member). It carried a review from the Financial Times of Joshua…

Balkans Peace Park Project Doing What it Can for global peace & conservation: summer program Rugova,Kosovo (Patrick McEntaggart) I was watching an old CSI:NY episode (#601). I watch them because the characters are good, the plotting is good, and they deal with real life issues while being true to the characters. One of the main…

  “Long Life to Your Children” photo credit to Stan Sherer Spinning Wool in the Mouth of the Monster. I considered the title, stark on the white page, with a baleful eye. Why had I burdened my novel with such a cumbersome name?   Oysters, I decided, it all came down to oysters. When a…

A younger Deborah in a quiet moment on the banks of the Baro. (photo by Steven Schewe) I’d been writing hard, and I was tired. I flopped down on the couch and clicked on the TV, set for some serious vacant staring. I’d make a sandwich in a minute. What came on was a documentary…