My first book presentation was a terrifying prospect for me… So much so that I managed to postpone it for more than a year, hoping I would get away with never celebrating the launch of my book.

I had watched explain and exhibit her woven tapestries to three foreign ladies on a bench in the Plaza Kusipata in Cusco. There was something about her that was genuine and endearing.

A true story about how a stray dog blessed our sacred despacho near the Moon Temple of the Inca’s, high in the mountains around Cusco, Peru…