Michal Strutin

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Archives for August 2026

Daughter & Art

August 30, 2026 By Michal Strutin

Pilar, my daughter, and I took the ferry from Oakland to San Francisco to see SF-MOMA’s fabulous Matisse exhibit. We are both big fans. The exhibit showed and told us how Matisse changed how we see and think of art. We also learned that the shipping cranes that many of us think … [Read more...]

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Interfaith Climate Gathering

August 23, 2026 By Michal Strutin

South Bay Interfaith’s Climate Gathering. We met at San Jose’s First Unitarian Church to find ways we all could help halt climate change: Unitarians, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians. Strength in numbers! We met to help pass CA state climate … [Read more...]

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A Killer of a Walk

August 16, 2026 By Michal Strutin

Michelle Chouinard led a number of us mystery writers on an eye-opening walk of San Francisco’s Jackson Square area. We learned that we were walking atop land fill studded with dozens of buried wooden sailing ships. Chouinard told chilling, sometimes crazy tales of murder and … [Read more...]

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Welcome to my website. Stories are collaborations among the writer, the editor…and the reader. I love it when readers tell me about insights they’ve had into my writing that I hadn’t even thought of. And, as a reader, I love to fill in details of people and place. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has spawned many movies, yet none of the Lizzys look like the one in my head.

I like writing historical fiction. Why? Researching a period is fun. Plus, people haven’t changed much over the millennia. Joy, jealousy, love, hate, laughter, misery. These are not new. A story seen from a distance in time gives resonance to the human condition. Homo sapiens? I think it’s just as apt to call ourselves Homo storytellers.

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