Near Sunset today I walked the Tennessee Valley Trail. It has always been important to me. The first year I lived in the area ( 15 years ago) I photographed its ever changing beach almost daily. Each day that beach is completely remodeled...
Read MoreLike geese head to their preferred home for the winter - so do I. Chicago has been good to Chasing Mercury and its origins in the waters of the earth. I've also been able to spend time with colleagues and mentors who span over 30 years and taught me much of the science in CM. However, it has not escaped me ( nor my body) that I have boarded and debarked from 20 separate aircrafts since this past May here in the USA, Canada, France, Portugal and Switzerland.
Read MoreSo it is Saturday, November 11, Veterans Day. Chasing mercury is still holding in the top 100 in three categories (It is the most you can categorize on Amazon in kindle ebooks and in books.)
Happy Veteran's Day -- Here are a few lines the character Sicily was told about her Grand Franklin".
Read MoreAt the University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics today I had the opportunity to hear Paul Farmer Anthropologist and Physician Speak at Mandell Hall at UC. He was a warded the annual prize of the MacLean Center. It was very touching as he reviewed with good humor tinged with sarcasm many of things done by wrote ethics pretending to be true ethics -- when ethics is defined as a course of action lead by mortal intention ( my definition.)
Read MoreGreat News!!! I just got notification from that Chasing Mercury is #1 in two categories on Amazon Memoir>environmentalist for Kindle and Books and #15 In Myster.International!Hi all! In Chicago Preparing For Readings tonight at Hyde Park Connect Gallery,Hyde Park, Chicago for the POST 11/9 THE NEW NOW [NOW] EXHIBITION. Hope to see people tonight at 8PM
Great News!!! I just got notification from that Chasing Mercury is #1 in two categories on Amazon Memoir>environmentalist for Kindle and Books and #15 In Myster.International!Hi all! In Chicago Preparing For Readings tonight at Hyde Park Connect Gallery,Hyde Park, Chicago for the POST 11/9 THE NEW NOW [NOW] EXHIBITION. Hope to see people tonight at 8PM
I'm excited to make this offer-- PLEASE ENJOY THE CHASING MERCURY AUDIOBOOK IN HONOR OF THIS AMAZING TRAVELING INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIT OPENING IN CHICAGO POST/11/9/ THE NEW NOW [NOW]. The Art Exhibit opens this THURSDAY. PLEASE SHARE THIS GIFT ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA AND WITH FRIENDS. The cost of your free audiobook will be donated by Chasing Mercury to the POSt/11/9 THE NEW NOW [NOW] Collective as Chicago is only the first venue of many national and international sites fo for this marvelous exhibition. I'm not just saying that because I'll be there reading from Chasing Mercury.
Read MoreSeptember Williams will read at the Connect Gallery, Hyde Park, Chicago, during the opening weekend of the Post 11/9 the New Now [Now] exhibition. September reads at 8PM on 11/9 and 11/10/2017. That is--on both evenings. The Post 11/9 New Now [Now] Exhibition gives voice to artists, writers and thinkers, awakened last year, the morning of 11/9/2016, by the gravity of the US Federal Election results. (https://www.post11nine.com). A member of the National Writers Union (UAW 1981)/IFJ, September Williams is tied to Chicago by training in medicine and film (www.septemberwilliams.com).
Read MoreQ. How did you chose the characteristic in the main characters of Chasing Mercury?
A .Sicily and Forest? I wanted the people in Chasing Mercury to look like and act like the people at my dinner table -- a mixed bag while--raising consciousness about environmental injustice and justice. Then I remembered how I became committed to those issues not through science and medicine but through the works of concerned photographers like W.E. Eugene Smith and Donald McCullum. Most importantly I remembered the unlikely superheroes I knew when I was crossing over from adolescent to woman
Read MoreI wanted you to know that I will be in Chicago in November, 2017. This is a heads up. I will give you more information on times when they are all set. Please stick one of these on your calendar. This is the kick off of the Chasing Mercury Book Tour. Chicago is also the opening location of Book 2 in the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy. (Now you are in on that secret.) So far my schedule looks like:
Read MoreReading at LitQuake/LitCrawl 2017.
Read MoreJust returning from the Minamata Convention on Mercury Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, where delegates who developed the movement around Making Toxic Mercury poisoning history, raised questions of needing to focus on more than the small scale gold mining provisions in the mercury convention. Chasing Mercury was well received by many of the delegates who are looking forward to reading it. Arriving home I happilyfound Chasing Mercury is now available in audiobook edition as well as ebook. See all retailers http://www.septemberwilliams.com/novel-synopsis/
Read MoreJust when you think nothing more significant can happen to connect the pieces of your life -- something does.
Read MoreBorn in Minamata, japan in 1956, Ms. Shinobu Sakamoto is a survivor congenitally afflicted with Minamata Disease. As early as age 15 she became an eloquent spokesperson and advocate for environmental justice, ending mercury pollution and protection of the rights and care of those with Minamata disease, severe human mercury poisoning. Minamata disease was initially recognized in the late 1950s, at Minamata Japan, and has the distinction of being among the first industrial toxin identified illnesses. Ms. Sakamoto has travelled from Japan to address the international community this week at the United Nations Environmental Program sponsored first conference of the parties signatory to the Minamata Convention on Mercury. The convention (treaty) has gone "into force" this past August 2017.
Read MoreThere is something inherently exhausting about compacting 3 years of work into 12 hours of audio recording -- I guess it's what makes diamonds. I had a great 4 days with Greg, a super sound engineer at Command Productions in Sausalito, recording the audiobook edition for Chasing Mercury. It's off to the distributors and hopefully it will be available by the end of this week or next...
Big news! I’m going to Geneva with Chasing Mercury next week. I'll be covering the 1st Conference of the Parties Signatory to the Minamata Convention on Mercury since the treaty went into force, August 16, 2017. The primary themes of Chasing Mercury were inspired by the signing of the Minamata Convention by a UNESCO initiative in 2013 at the Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan, nearly sixty years after the toxic effects of the persistent organic pollutant methyl mercury was found to cause Minamata disease— and forty-five years after a ballerina named Sicily met a powwow dancer whistleblower journalist name Forest.
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I woke up this morning to find Chasing Mercury, my romantic suspense, saga, and my now owning its significant part memoir, being in the top 100 best sellers in two amazon categories #12 in Kindle Memoirs and Biographies> Environmentalists & Naturalists. https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/10332450011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kstore_1_5_last and #46 in the same categories of books. It changes every hour but has been inthe same grouping most of the past two days. Go figure...
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I had a great interview with Glenn Ellis this morning- despite it being 6AM for me--9AM for him on the East Coast. Though we were talking about End of Life cross cultural issues Chasing Mercury--which is all that too-- crept in.
Read MoreFrom Chasing Mercury, Chapter 17, San francisco Bay 1969-1972
“Paco often traveled through the back alleys of Venice, as he had that night, to reach our house. He tried the back door. Locked, as it should have been, he started to knock. That was when he heard the sound of our front windows shattering. Kicking the door open, he had a line of sight through the living room to the front yard. Two unfamiliar shadows held cigarette lighters. Whoosh, whoosh—Molotov cocktails, gasoline soaked cloth wicks in Coke bottles, flew through the already broken glass.
Read More“HOT ENOUGH TO BLISTER THE skin, the Santa Ana Winds ravaged Los Angeles. Sirens raced down Manchester to the hospital on the other side of the cul-de-sac. They were loud and frequent, stopping us from opening the windows to let even the hot breeze blow through. From the ranch house picture window we could see black clouds from fires burning eight miles south. Newscasters called it a riot. Later, the people who lived in that part of the city, and history, would call it The Watts Uprisings.
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