Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

This morning I watched 1945: A Savage Peace, a BBC documentary on what happened to the ethnic German civilians living in Eastern Europe...

Bad People People being evil?  Why do they do it? I don't know.  But they seem to be doing it a lot more.  There was that book that ...

A Found Book You pick up a book of poetry off of one of the shelves in your study, and you wonder where it came from.  There’s nothing yo...

I still remember the first time I saw snow. I was almost three years old, living in a refugee camp in Germany. The snow fell thick an...

Road of Bones That's the title of my forthcoming novel (Kasva Press) about two German lovers separated by war. It's set in Berli...

My father always talked about the men and women he was in the slave labor camps as his brothers and sisters. I remember once walking ...

I remember the first time I knew there was death in the world.   I was in kindergarten at St. Hedwig's, a parochial school on...