Something interesting happened recently. Four years ago, I wrote A Lightness in My Soul, a WWII novella about a boy who is taken to the concentration camp, Dachau, by American troops. My friend, Marion, had met an old man in a car repair shop and he’d told her his story as a teen. Despite my […]
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This holiday has been strange. I think the expectation and what marketing execs want to suggest is that Christmas or whatever holiday we celebrate must be happy. Everyone smiles, there is no conflict, tables are laden with food and the Christmas tree can hardly be seen for all the presents around it. The older I
Last week I showed my amazing daughter-in-law, Mar, some of the historical spots of my WWII novel Surviving the Fatherland. She also helps me with marketing on Instagram and Facebook. It so happens that we live a five-minute walk from the places, my parents and main protagonists endured the war. We stopped by the old
Well, at least let’s hope it’ll be happier than 2020. Corona, Covid-19, has cast its black veil across the planet. Few countries are as affected as the U.S. – When one feels down, it often helps to think about things we are grateful for. The list is long, but I will attempt to mention a
Liebe Leser, ich wünsche Ihnen ein paar schöne Tage, wenn sie vielleicht auch nicht wie gewohnt stattfinden können. Gerade heute las ich, dass wir uns jetzt auf uns konzentrieren können, vielleicht ein wenig nach innen horchen, uns selbst etwas Gutes tun. Dieses Gute, dieser Respekt, den wir uns selbst zeigen, wirkt sich dann auch auf
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Autoreninterview am 25. März Wer am 25. März ein paar Minuten Zeit hat, kann sich auf der Seite der Authors Show mein englisches Interview zum biografischen und mehrfach ausgezeichneten Buch Vaterland, wo bist Du? anhoren. Das Interview wird 24 Stunden ausgestrahlt. Einfach auf die Seite gehen und den Buchtitel auswählen. Lesungen Bis auf weiteres sind
In 2002 I interviewed my parents about their experiences during WWII. They’d been kids, then youths in the post-war era, had met and fallen in love. But that’s not what I want to talk about here, I want to tell you about the first time I realized I loved writing. After that three-week task of
‘How I Got Here’ or The Rocky Road of Becoming an Author Read More »
++++++++Update++++++++ Mocha, my dear old girl has passed away. I’m beyond sad and miss her so much. I’m telling myself that she is in peace now, taking a good long nap or maybe running in a beautiful forest. Love you forever. For those of you who wonder about my old mutt, Mocha, who is prominently
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Well, I thought I’d work ahead with my newest manuscript and get it listed on my online platforms. I was still waiting for the editor to finish and sure enough, she didn’t like the title of the book. Yikes. So I hemmed and hawed whether to go against my editor’s comments—and my husband’s who also
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I look back on 2018 with utmost gratitude. A year ago, my husband and father suffered strokes within the span of three weeks. I spent months worrying about their recovery, watched tentative steps grow into wobbly walks. Neither man is fully recovered, yet they are moving, talking and exercising. My father just turned 90 and
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