In my online research I found “White Blossoms,” an opinion piece by Milan Hanuš.* The subject was Charles’ sister Vlasta and the pain she experienced while being imprisoned for her work in the Czech Resistance during the Cold War. Hanuš declared how shameful it is that the Czech public doesn’t listen more to those who deserve to …
It seems everyone’s gone crazy over tomorrow’s total eclipse. The program director of the National Science Foundation has said, “There’s never been an event like this in human history where so many people could participate and with such unique technology.” It’s the celestial event of a lifetime in the U.S.! To avoid chaos, the library …
I keep thinking about Charles‘ sister Vlasta Marie Nováčková Jakubová (1925-2017). Sadly, she died this year at the age of ninety-two. Vlasta was three years older than Charles and started her work in the Czech anti-Nazi resistance at age fourteen during World War II. She worked for her uncle Josef Robotka’s Rada Tri (R-3) guerilla organization. She …
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted. I’ll start slowly and follow Charles’ pathways through this neighborhood. This is where he wrote his memoir and where he fought PTSD as he remembered. Walks through the neighborhood helped to ease his anxiety and got him back to writing. Maybe they’ll help me, too. As he …
I’m forever finding connections between people, places, and things. This time it’s silkworms, Gobelín tapestries, and Detroit. It all started with childhood visits to Greenfield Village, an outdoor American history museum in the Detroit, Michigan suburb of Dearborn. Daytrips with family, a weekend with my Girl Scout troop, my high school prom, and lantern-lit holiday …
The book pictured above arrived at my home in Detroit around Christmastime this year. Below is the story behind its being sent to me. Wartime adversely affected my late husband Charles’ dream of going to art school and becoming an artist when Adolf Hitler closed all art schools in Czechoslovakia during World War II. …
