Melody's Blog

Any follower of my blog knows I come and go. Well, since my last post in July 2018, I have been in hospital 12 or 13 times, usually for 5-6 days at a time. Just one thing after another. I don’t believe you can withstand cancer for nearly 40 years without a bunch of other stuff going wrong and indeed, it is the effects of the cancer causing most of my problems. Now, we are stuck in shelter-in-place in most parts of the world due to COVID-19. I’m hoping to use this enforced period of self-isolation to write some more and edit more of my dad’s stories. I have also had a couple more books that were accepted in the Paul Bechtold Library Publications project before I had to resign to long-term disability, and everything else has had to wait on me getting those finished. I’m sure I wrote about the books we were publishing elsewhere, but the last two books in the project are awesome and I want to comment on them. The penultimate book is titled  Hattie’s Book: A Woman’s Story in the Ci...

In an earlier blog post, I distinguished between my "official" editing and the editing I do out of love for my family and I've been incredibly busy (for me) with official editing. The third Paul Bechtold Library open access monograph was just published and you can read it—for free as an open access book or purchase a print on demand copy on Amazon for $14.99. The title is  Reconciling Cultures and Generations: Reflections on Today's Church by Korean American Catholics , edited by Simon Kim and Francis Daeshin Kim, copyedited (maybe really a bit more than copyedited!) by me. I'm incredibly proud of how terrific this book has turned out to be, especially with such a lovely cover created by Francis Daeshin Kim with photos from Kevin Considine who I know a bit! I've started on the next bit of editing, a collection of 14 or so essays on Contextual Theology by faculty from the theology school at Santa Clara University. They are basically riffing off a book...