Kathleen (A Winding Thread)

In 1907 half Navajo Texas ranch woman and war widow, Kathleen Jefferson Rodriguez, follows family members to the Philippines, where she becomes the one who finds the most: danger, adventure, love, God, and a future.

Robert Jackson was an educator before working in his first loves writing & art. These reflect his interest in the culture and history of America and his wife's homeland, the Philippines. The latter was once America's biggest and farthest colony. The couple lived in the Repúblika ng Pilipinás for several years during the Marcos era. He taught in public schools in Virginia & Texas and on elementary, secondary, and college levels in the Philippines. He coached college women's volleyball in the Islands as well. Robert Jackson's website contains Christian and politically conservative cartoons, commentary, poetry, and more. He is a graduate of Mr. Jefferson's University, the University of Virginia. Though his stories contain mature themes and subject matter as well as realistic violence, they are devoid of blatant and gratuitous sexual and violent content. The novels and poetry of Robert Jackson tend to be set in historical periods, especially but not exclusively colonial and frontier periods.