Hollye Dexter
Mom. Author. Singer. Rabble-Rouser.
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Throw Love at It

by Hollye Dexter | Apr 2, 2013 | answered prayers, faith, family, hope through adversity, Japan custody laws, Japanese American, prayer, the power of love

My friend Mary gives the best advice. Over a year ago, I sat in her front yard with tears in my eyes, and told her that my daughter in law and grandson were not coming back from what was supposed to be a visit to Japan. I told her I feared the worst – I may never see...

Answered Prayers

by Hollye Dexter | Oct 17, 2012 | faith, healing family relationships, Japan custody laws, miracles, prayer, the power of love, the power of positive thinking

When you put your faith in love…Troy is home from Japan with videos and pics of our grandbaby Ayumu, and as I peruse them again and again, I am overwhelmed with gratitude. I prayed for this EVERY day for a year. I woke up each morning, and thought about Ayumu. I...

Love Finds a Way

by Hollye Dexter | Sep 26, 2012 | family, Japan custody laws, Japan parental abduction, Japanese American, Love heals, miracles

Sometimes…when you hold a prayer in your heart, and never lose faith, and repeat it every morning for almost a year…Sometimes, when you refuse to give in to fear, or anger, or faithlessness…Sometimes when you choose love, and hold on to it in the face of challenges…-...

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About Hollye

Hollye Dexter is author of the memoir Fire Season (She Writes Press, 2015) and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press). Called “moving” and “inspiring on so many levels” by FIRST FOR WOMEN Magazine, Fire Season was also an NIEA finalist for BEST MEMOIR. Hollye’s essays and articles about women’s issues, activism and parenting have been published in anthologies as well as in Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Writer’s Digest and more. In 2003, she founded the award-winning nonprofit Art and Soul, running arts workshops for teenagers in the foster care system.

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