Time traveler stuck in time

by Amy Bernstein

This is for the long fiction piece I am writing. She must have a past, a childhood, the whole magilla. So now I go back and make up her past and she becomes someone I know, maybe someone I have mentioned in a short story but now I can fill her out, and set her in a different time and place.

I am very nervous about how my family will feel about this book. Maybe they will, as they have in the past, see themselves in it and take umbrage to my depiction. I have never portrayed my brother in anything I have written, but he sees himself often anyway and then he becomes so irate with me!

Maya HealingI

by Amy Bernstein

I have been doing extensive research on the healing tradition of the Maya for my book. Though I would call myself a just about totally non-spiritual person, and an intense atheist, still I find the role of the gods in healing a compelling story. Western medicine, when it looks at traditional medicine at all tends to want to go straight to the use of traditional medicines, separating that from the other parts of treatment which are spiritual as well as physical.

In the ending of the novel I am writing, Maya medicine in all of its parts becomes a central part. There is also the power of story in medicine.

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