History, Real Life, and Faith
How do you close down the home when a loved one dies? It’s a minefield of emotions, sorting, negotiating and hard work. I’ve done it four times, now, and have five suggestions on how to get through the arduous task of closing down the life of someone you love. 5 Tips on How to Close Down a Home This assumes…
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Traveler’s Tales: IWM I’ve been after my husband to take me to London’s Imperial War Museum (IMW) since last July when its World War I exhibit reopened. We’d visited the exhibit in 2009 and I well remembered it, particularly the intense “as if you were there” trench exhibit. Since I spent the last two years writing about WWI, this seemed a terrific time to…
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Like many Americans, our family is made up of immigrants. I’m a first generation American on my mother’s side of the family. My father’s? Oh, twelfth? My husband is a second generation American on his father’s side. His mother’s? Oh, thirteenth? But like many immigrant families, our families have remained in touch with folks in the old world and have…
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My husband and I returned last night from 17 days in Europe and while I’d like to think I’m coherent, the truth is I’ve not slept more than a couple hours in the last four days. Jet lag anyone? I’ve downloaded more than 1000 photos, so far, and I’ve got a lot a notes, so today I’m just going to…
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How do writers disconnect from social media and their writing to travel or get a break? I wrote this after an extensive trip visiting family. It was my husband’s first vacation in a couple years. I wanted to spend it enjoying the trip rather than being distracted by what might be happening on my blog, Facebook, or Twitter (not to mention…
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Do you know where Slovenia is? East of Italy, south of Austria, north of Croatia., a touch to western Hungary. It’s in alpine country. Do you know what language they speak there? Slovenian. Can you say anything in Slovenia? I can’t either. Which was a problem when we visited relatives. The GPS App The trouble began the moment we crossed…
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