Detroit, MI— It’s the month of love and the day February 3rd is the birthday of American novelist and short-story writer James Michener (1907-1997), a favorite of my late husband Charles. Michener’s novels were detailed and researched extensively. He was known for making foreign lands accessible to Americans through his epic “fictional documentaries.” One of …
It’s the birthday of my late husband Charles Novacek’s mother Maria Patko Nováčeková. She was born on January 8, 1902, in the village of Ožd’any in Austria-Hungary, the present day Slovakia near the Hungarian border. As Charles stated in his memoir, Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance “Mother’s native language was Hungarian and …
“I believe we create a more positive future through wishing.” …
“Yet with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not The love song which they bring; – O hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing!” –Edmund …
Last Saturday while I was exhibiting BORDER CROSSINGS Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance, I had my sketch done by two author/illustrators at the Orion Township Public Library’s “The Giving Season: Local Author (and Illustrator) Fair.” One of them was Andy Lockwood who describes himself as …a writer, filmmaker, wanderer, poet, imagineer, bibliophile, cinephile, …
Come for fun and local holiday shopping to the 2014 Sunday Street Market Holiday Market on December 7 and December 14 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. inside Shed 3 at Detroit’s Eastern Market. My 1021 Press booth will be there with my late husband Charles Novacek’s award-winning memoir BORDER CROSSINGS: Coming of Age in …
