A SMIGEN OF IRISH LUCK is a collection of essays taking you on one woman's adventures in Ireland. Planting her feet on Irish soil is all it requires to see extraordinary where there is ordinary, to engage in conversations in the oddest of places and adjust to the inevitable raindrops like a local. You will follow Thomas on her search for the elusive four-leaf clover, face a kiss at the Blarney Stone, share a soulful moment at W.B. Yeats' grave and find it difficult to leave Galway's lively streets. Thomas claims no Irish roots; yet she gets inspired with the music, literature and pub culture...

I'll Be Honest with You is a collection of essays about everything under the sun including the kitchen sink - seriously. Thomas takes on a new challenge writing minimally leaving readers to piece together what they want from brief "flashes," or eruptions of ideas. It's a book to be picked up and read over and over for snippets of truth sprinkled with a good portion of playfulness.

Shimmering Japanese Sunlight is one woman's experience traveling to Japan where she discovers the unexpected in a treasure of an island country. Thomas travels for knowledge rather than information, and this collection of essays invites you to see through the author's eyes with her glint of humor how she engages with the overall politeness in the nature of the Japanese people, and the surprising quietness on crowded city streets. Three generations after World War II and Thomas wants to put her childhood thoughts from her schoolbooks to rest by going to Hiroshima. Travel is always about the...