Something Like A Biography

Three of Katherine's nonfiction books are available on Amazon: Dark Flight: The Hunt for the Tucson Ring Meteorite; The World Came to Tucson: A Personal Journey through the Greatest Gem & Mineral Show on Earth [Revised edition]; and Nursing Homes: The right Questions.

Her urban fantasy novel Hunters: the nonfiction, Dancing with the Dead: The natural History of Tucson: her memoir, Mysteries of a Quiet Life; a cookbook, Tucson Granny's Comfort Food and a short essays will soon be available on her blog, still in progress.

4th generation Californian with a background in news photography. She has worked as a reporter for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune and the San Fransisco Call Bulletin. She has also worked as a Ringling Brothers Circus roustabout; proprietor of a floating crap game in New York City; an opal miner in Australia, and a bartender in Casablanca. She is still working towards her lifelong goal of becoming a street corner demagogue.

Currently she divides her time between her spirtual home on the northeast of California; Los Angeles circa 1976, and her home in comfortable exile in the desert between Tucson and the Back of Beyond, indulging three eccentric house cats. Her hobbies include writing, collecting and oddities, searching junk stores and yard sales for treasure maps, and watching the skies.

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Inner Bair Island: The World No One Knew

Note: I lived in Foster City. My home was near the intersection of Foster City Boulevard and Beachpark Boulevard, across the street from Belmont Slough. Bair Island is a 3,000 acre self-contained salt marsh bordered by Highway 101, San Francisco Bay, the community of Redwood Shores and the Port of Redwood City. The parking area is a wide spot at the junction of 101 and East Bayshore Road. A few concrete barriers and a locked metal gate keep cars but not people off the islan

May 85 min read

Mystery Walls of the East Bay

MYSTERY WALLS OF THE EAST BAY: Mission Peak Regional Preserve Part I History On the east side of San Francisco Bay, thousands of people travel on Highway 680 between Milpitas and Fremont. Stuck in traffic, a few might notice a dark streak high on a ridge, and assume it’s just another outcrop in a rocky hillside. It’s not. It’s one fragment in the Great Mystery of the Bay Area--the Walls on the Mountains. No one knows who built them, or why. They follow no obvious pattern an

Apr 1610 min read

Mysteries of a Quiet Life: A Memoir

Mysteries of A Quiet Life: A Memoir DEDICATION To my grandfather, Francis Ralph Rambo 1894-1990 Artist. Writer. Historian. Master storyteller. For over fifty years he was the principal graphic artist and Art Director for Muirson Label Company in San Jose, California. After retiring, he wrote and published eleven hand-lettered and illustrated books—history, short memoirs—as well as maps about the Santa Clara Valley. At age 96, he took The Writer’s hand and said, “I want to lea

Apr 1666 min read

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