“Mariam Stephens’ Safe Passage Notebooks shows us how love creates safety in a war-besieged land and how dedication preserves peace when nothing else is certain.  Whether through the eyes of an Irish child, both innocent and acquainted with “troubles,” or through the eyes of a true “saboteur,” a citizen who keeps neighborhood peace in an arena of war, Notebooks takes you there with an immediacy and poignancy you will carry long after turning the last page.” --Vilma Ginzberg, poet, memoirist, Healdsburg Literary Laureate 2008/2009