Book Review - Irena's Children - The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto - A True Story of Courage - Tilar J. Mazzeo - Gallery Books, New York, 2016 *** I have read many books on the Holocaust, but this is the first one I have read which centers...
Sebastian - Non-Fiction Short Story Excerpt Opening Paragraph … and then he paused and looked at me for a moment and smiled, not the smile of a street jokester or comedy club hopeful, but the smile of a person thoughtfully and sadly trying to connect the darkness and chill of the evening with the...
Mary Cassatt | Denise at Her Dressing Table | American | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Postcard Story – Denise at Her Dressing Table – Mary Cassatt – 1908-1909 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oldest Granddaughter – 07/22/21 … and mirrors do not lie, she thought, and … perhaps...
A Butter Pecan Ice Cream Cone at a Baskins-Robbins in Sacramento - She Held on to Her Walker with Hands so Gnarled and Misshapen that They Were Painful to Behold *** I went to a Baskin-Robbins in Sacramento to pick up the ice cream cake - Oreo Cookie - for my grandson's birthday party. An...
A Tale of Two Grandfathers Separated by Distance and Some Years in Time Los Angeles is a very diverse city and home to many diverse interracial marriages. When out grocery shopping, or in major public gatherings, such as a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, for me, interracial couples no longer...
Petrus Christus | A Goldsmith in his Shop | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Postcard Story – A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius – Petrus Christus - 1449 –The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Granddaughter – 08/31/23 …and it was a nice wedding, as weddings go, but this...
I Also Didn't Have the Opportunity to Rest and Have at Least Some Kind of Vacation. Now I Feel Very Exhausted. У мене теж не було можливості відпочити і мати хоч якусь відпустку. Зараз я почуваюся дуже виснаженою. *** On June 28, 2024, I wrote Maxim, one of my close friends in Ukraine, saying I...
Civil War Bullets & My Mom’s Sewing Thimbles in the Curio Box from Hallmark upon the Wall Among all the thimbles and the other little treasures and souvenirs within the wooden curio box from Hallmark, there are three bullets, souvenirs of a visit to one of at the seven American Civil War...