History, Real Life and Faith
How do can you recognize bitterness? Do you ever walk away from an unpleasant encounter and replay it in your brain? Are your snappy retorts more clever and pointed in your mind the second time than what you actually said? Can you imagine more ameanable responses from that person you just mentally pinned to the wall when you had a second chance? Do…
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Is it unusual in your world to see a woman wearing a cross around her neck? Standing in line to tour the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest, I got into a lengthy discussion of recent history with my sister-in-law’s cousin, Attila (“the Hun,” as he likes to say). The conversation in English had become quite animated when I noticed the…
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And it came to pass I had had enough. All I wanted was to be transported far, far away–I didn’t even care where–just to be relieved of the drudgery of my life. My children were perfectly loveable and ages two and four. My husband had been out to sea on a submarine for a very long time; I did not know when…
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“Stop the research and start writing!” My patron of the arts had heard enough whining, even if he had been the source of some of the anguish with his periodic question, “Have you found the key to your heroine yet?” No. So I continued to read about her and amass more information. But he’d finally had enough. “You’ll feel better if you…
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My family loved visiting the London war zone. Married to a now-retired naval officer, I’m still often involved in military matters and that holds particularly true while on vacation. We’ve actually dubbed some of our trips by the wars we wound up investigating. There was the infamous French and Indian War trip (Maine, Quebec, Fort Ticonderoga), the Civil War outings…
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My family loved visiting the London war zone. Married to a now-retired naval officer, I’m still often involved in military matters and that holds particularly true while on vacation. We’ve actually dubbed some of our trips by the wars we wound up investigating. There was the infamous French and Indian War trip (Maine, Quebec, Fort Ticonderoga), the Civil War outings…
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