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It is a gusty rainy afternoon. Storms sweep across France. I've turned 76 this birthday. Over coffee and croissant at the Mount Drejet brasserie I consider: I have raised five...
Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
Gribovac, Plitvice Lakes, and a novel During the week 18-24 October 2023 Patrice and I visited Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes region to 1). take a one-week vacation and 2) to ‘ground...
War in Ukraine observed from United Kingdom
Patrice and I are spending Christmas with Michelle and Nigel in Horsmonden, UK. We had met them a week ago in Calais to drive to Bruges, Belgium, for the Christmas...
Collegiale de Notre Dame
Semur-en-Auxios, France The weather in France has turned cold, between 30-34F. I hear guffaws all the way from Northern Wisconsin. A blizzard sweeps across the northern plains and into the...
Kippenheim
20 September (2022), Rachel Lavin (friend) and Francine Pease (sister), Patrice and I visited Freiburg im Breisgau with a side trip to Patrice's family (father’s side) to their pre-WWII home...
Uncle Kurt and Holocaust
On 16-17 October, 2019. Â The United States Holocaust Museum sponsored Patrice's 89-year-old Uncle Kurt Maier, Emeritus Librarian, Library of Congress (German collection). Kurt, a Holocaust survivor with a wicked...
Honor Flight 2 September 2019
On Labor Day week-end, 2019 I joined 200+ veterans and guardians on the local Honor Flight To Washington, D.C. I went grudgingly... Marcia, my daughter, had long ago signed me...
Louts, Predators and Daughters
I am a hard case for the homilists of Holy Wisdom, the Benedictine Monastery, Madison, Wisconsin, where I attend mass. I tend to zone out. However, the first reading during last...
