Family
Prague, CZ, 14-19 October 2026
Patrice and I met James R.C. and Daraka Cook (plus granddaughter, Finn) in Prague in 15-19 October. They have been my friends since 1970-71, when Jim and I flew with...
Hometown
Gleason, Wisconsin In April (16-25, 2025), I booked a trip 'home' to Gleason, Wisconsin, as my older sister, Arlene, a resident of Pine Crest, was ill. It is always better...
Daughters
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...
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. 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...
