When I was young my family left the sidewalks and streetlights of Detroit for the wide open spaces of Southfield. Our home was nestled in an idyllic neighborhood with gravel roads and at night dark skies filled with stars we could actually see. A woods for exploration and building forts stood across the street and …
Brad, a reading role model and busy Dad, takes time to read Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance with his daughter Alexa Faye close by.
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Today is Friday, the thirteenth of February, the day before Valentine’s Day. I should probably be writing about romantic love. But, I won’t. Instead, I’ll write about a stunning symbol of peace and the love of country and American Regionalist painter Grant Wood (1891-1942) whose birthday is today. Wood was born near Anamosa, Iowa and …
It’s nearly Valentine’s Day and my Christmas amaryllis have just started to bloom! Anyone who knew my late husband Charles knew how much he loved colorful fresh flowers. For our eleven years together Charles and I had a garden of dazzling red amaryllis atop our dining room table instead of a Christmas tree. I’ve tried …
Last winter on Valentine’s Day 2014, I was overjoyed when a story on Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance (my late husband Charles Novacek’s posthumously-published memoir) appeared on the front page of the Detroit Free Press above the fold, “Ultimate valentine: Book of husband’s war-era stories became a project of love.” “Above …
