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Human Rights Under Democracy Can Disappear Fast
Over two decades of researching my nonfiction trilogy, I often delved into the darker sides of the mind and heart. Having never known my paternal grandparents—they were killed in the Holocaust in 1942—I discovered their lives through letters. Of the 400 letters Dad preserved, 44 were from his parents, along with other documents he obtained…
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Freedom for Cuba
With the passing of Fidel Castro, I’m reminded of a time in the early 1960s when my parents offered to house a Cuban refugee family just after their escape from the tyranny of Castro’s regime. In our home in Indialantic came a small, very sad family who spoke little English and wished only to gain…
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“Shout for Freedom”
“Shout for Freedom” A memory from the Velvet Revolution – Twenty-Five years ago – Czechoslovakia, November, 1989 I have a memory that embodies the emotions I felt when my dad’s native land, Czechoslovakia, recovered their freedom. After forty-one years of communist rule, in what is now known as the “Velvet Revolution,” a brave country shouted…
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“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.”
Recently, I was a guest author at a local book club. The 13 attendees all had read Adventurers Against Their Will and came with questions and compliments that once again reminded me why I’m doing what I’m doing in this second chapter of my life. Clearly resonating with readers is the humanizing of history through…
Steadfast Ink: The Journey Within
MY DEAR BOY: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation
Adventurers Against Their Will
