“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.”

—attributed to St. Augustine

About Kit

An activist all her life, Kit knows that successful democracies are built on informed and principled dissent. She’s a wife, a mom and a grandma, a retired pediatric oncology nurse, a traveler, a reader, and a native Seattleite.

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Books by Kit

Forthcoming Project

I'm only reading and thinking at this stage, but the general idea is something about traveling, about going places--the actual travel itself more than the being there part. For starters, there's obviously recreational travel and refugee travel. There's slow walking travel and speedy jet travel. There's travel alone or with others. Lots of other ways humans travel through space (time travel?), never forgetting that we all journeyed from Africa those thousands of years ago. Moving is in our species' DNA.

Praise for Kit

“This is a heartening book that recognizes dissent as integral to democracy…
it is well written in a tight and journalistic style.”

—Lorraine McConaghy, author and public historian emeritus, Seattle Museum of History and Industry (on Protest on Trial)

“A wonderful and endearing story about the power of books and travel to heal us.”

—Jim Lynch, national best-selling author (on Dancing on the Edge)

“(An) excellent book…the effect is like a wonderful movie shot with a hand-held camera.”

—Carolyn See, Washington Post Book World (on Miss Alcott’s E-mail)