As most of you know, my husband and I moved to Europe in 2017. I’d spent 30 years in the US and we decided to live abroad to experience new things. Many new things. Meanwhile we have bought a house, not the new construction we had planned, but a farmhouse from 1900 in the West […]
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I’m the first to admit that I find the Middle Ages fascinating. But anyone who knows what life was really like in those days, also knows that we tend to romanticize a lot. The old castle ruins of Hanstein I still use as the header for my website were my inspiration to write the ESCAPE
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Everywhere I go, I keep my eyes open for another story. It’s not even that I’m purposefully looking, it’s sort of an unconscious awareness that is ready to scream when something interesting crosses my path. You never know when you hit pay dirt. This time it happened on a strenuous hike in South Tirol—Northern Italy.
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Recording of ‘Everything We Lose’ Audiobook Finished Alan Taylor has completed narration of ‘Everything We Lose,’ my civil war adventure. Alan’s voice truly brings Adam’s and Tip’s adventurous plight to life and I can’t wait to share it with the world. Just a few more weeks until administration and distribution are complete. I’ll keep you
Well, my friends, it’s been a busy month. Aside from attempting to tame the German bureaucracy or what Germans call the “Amtsschimmel,” I’ve been working hard on prepping for the publication of my Civil War novel. Broken Journey: A Civil War Adventure is in editing which means I’m working on wording for the back cover
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More than a month ago I set foot in my home country, Germany, in particular I returned to the town I grew up in: Solingen. I have since discovered that if you leave your home for 30 years, you don’t fit into Germany’s neatly organized bureaucracy any longer. All Germans have to report to the
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Once upon a time a freshly degreed German woman traveled to the U.S. to take a job in marketing for a hotel chain. At a Super Bowl party she met an engineer who worked in aerospace. That was in 1987. Thirty plus years, three kids and several careers later, the no longer so young woman
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An author once told me he preferred writing fantasy so he’d not have to waste time researching history. He just imagined details as he went, building fantastic worlds in made-up places. Well, let me tell you why I love historical fiction. I have to admit I didn’t realize just how much time I’d spend researching
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Two weeks ago my husband and I set out to go camping in Michigan. We’d prepared well, bought a tent, dusted off sleeping bags, cooking utensils and air mattresses. We’d bought Michigan’s Best Tent Camping and Trout Streams of Michigan, we had bicycle gear, fishing gear and everything in-between. The GTI was packed to the
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Our recent month-long trip to Germany and the upcoming World Cup U.S.-German soccer game gave me the idea of comparing a few notes, things I chuckle about every time we visit the old country. There are the obvious differences like brats versus burgers. But that’s not what I’m talking about though the sheer number of
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