If you want your child to be a reader, be one yourself.
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.
For Love of Country, a Valentine, and a Stained Glass Window
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 …
Border Crossings: Above the Fold
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 …
Wishing for Happiness, Peace + Joy Around the World + in Detroit
“I believe we create a more positive future through wishing.” …
A Carol for Peace in the World + A Piece of Land in Detroit
“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 …
Local Author Fair and a Sketch
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, …
