History, Real Life, and Faith
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
Why use your hands to speak English? Or, was that just Italian?
Unlikely heroes of WWI: animals, slugs, and birds!
Dogs, of course, played a significant role in World War I. The Army used dogs for all sorts of jobs, mostly involving their superior tracking skills, keen eyes, alert hearing and adorable countenances. At the start of the war, the British Army had only one sentry dog, but they quickly rectified the situation when they discovered how valuable dogs could…
Read More
Who would have guessed that A.A. Milne‘s famous Winnie the Pooh was the result of World War I? Oh, I know you think he sprang fully to life from the Hundred Acre Woods, but in actuality Winnie (who became the Pooh) was born in Canada. She was female, and the pet of Lieutenant Harry Colebourn of the Canadian Royal Army Veterinary…
Read More