History, Real Life, and Faith
Have you ever met an angel? I’ve been thinking about angels this weekend as my family went through a fairly traumatic experience. After all, angels usually appear in the unusual when you least expect them. Or do they? I taught my children the way to recognize an angel is by it’s first words: “Fear not.” Both the Old and New…
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In terms of historical fiction, what was life like before the Internet
The power of one teacher’s observation changed my father’s life–and thus mine. Benny was a harum-scarum young man in the 1940s. The eldest child in a family of four with a dad who often wandered off, he was raised in a poor family supported by my grandmother’s job in the tool room at a local defense plant. The family took…
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Visiting Budapest with a shadow novel
The Communist horror of Budapest displayed in the Terror House
A sober visit to Budapest’s terror museums