About Michael
Michael Kinch, Author of the BLENDING TIME trilogy
My dad was a jazz musician with wanderlust. When I was a kid we moved from city to city to city . . . I went to 7 or 8 different grade schools so was always the new guy. I was not an honor student but a daydreamer who escaped into fantasy through books and my own scribbled stories and drawings (texting to survive boring classes was not yet invented). Bottom line: my goofing off and avoiding homework didn’t earn me good grades. But somehow I squeaked through grade- and high school . . . barely. After a couple of clueless years in college I realized I had no idea 
what I wanted to be, so dropped out and joined the Army “to see the world.” They taught me Morse Code and shipped me to Germany (yay!) where I was assigned to listen to the “ditty bopping” code of the “bad guys” across the Iron Curtain.Not exciting, but I got a beat-up VW Bug and traveled around Europe on leaves (Army term for “vacations”).
After 3 years of serving Uncle Sam I got my act together got a couple of college degrees; married a lovely girl, Marjorie; then got a job as a science librarian at an Oregon University. Margie and I have 2 girls, but no pets ($!&*#@ allergies!).
When not working I wrote unpublished novels, dozens of published journal articles for art magazines (Art was my college minor).
As a librarian with some tech skills, I was chosen to go to East Africa to teach librarians in African at a workshop in Malawi. This was a thrill of a lifetime and the impressions of Africa and Africans stayed with me and planted the seeds for my novel, The Blending Time.
Below are some photos from my trip:
Women at Saturday Open-Air Market
"Are we there yet?"
African Tinsmith
Amazing baskets for sale.
