New Yorkers

New Yorkers

by | Sep 15, 2024 | Deception, Family, Liar

They take some getting used to! How New Yorkers see the United States. If three New Yorkers enter a taxi without arguing, a bank has been robbed. Phyllis Diller, New Yorker. “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she...
Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

by | Oct 31, 2023 | Croatia, Family, Resurrection, Travel

Grabovac, 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 truth’ a chase scene which concludes my fifth novel, Resurrection.  Sixteen Lakes, the...
War in Ukraine observed from United Kingdom

War in Ukraine observed from United Kingdom

by | Dec 25, 2022 | Deception, Family, Germany

Christmas Morning with grandchildren (Horsmonden, 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 Market, then onto England to spend the...
Collegiale de Notre Dame

Collegiale de Notre Dame

by | Dec 15, 2022 | Family, Resurrection, Russia, Soviet Union

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 Northwoods as I type.  Today is an anniversary of sorts. Patrice and I arrived...
Kippenheim, Germany

Kippenheim, Germany

by | Oct 3, 2022 | Deception, Family, Germany

For these past  two + years Patrice and I became acquainted, grace a covid,  with the medieval trails and French citizens in Semur-en-Auxios, France.  No complaints.  The Burgundian landscape is rolling and beautiful, its farmers are meticulous...