Atatürk’s Pajamas
Reading Time: 7 minutesBoth history and mythology come alive as we explore the paradox of Turkiye, discovering that Atatürk was not just the father of his country, but its mother, too. … Read story…Atatürk’s Pajamas
Tag: Historiography
Under the Influence: Inara Verzemnieks
Reading Time: 3 minutesHe drives because I can’t put down my book, Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming by Inara Verzemnieks. I realize the ancestral farm she is writing about is not far away… … Read story…Under the Influence: Inara Verzemnieks
Lay Claim to Your Own Life: Reading and Writing
Reading Time: 2 minutesReading and writing are my addictions. I read to escape. I read to go deeper, to focus, to travel. I
1880’s Andover, Dakota Territory
Reading Time: 8 minutesMy grandmother Daisy Potter reaches her hand to me from across time, from the beginnings of her life. She has
Iwo Jima
Reading Time: 12 minutesFebruary 16, 1945. Iwo Jima The last letter I have from my father to my mother was one she carefully
Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe day fades as we drive our VW camper over the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma. We’ve just left Montgomery,
Memoir in Progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes“Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are.” Ortega y Gasset On
Why We Travel: The Fall of Rome & Other Empires
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhile I was climbing Mount Etna, I got a horrible cold. It was so bad, in fact, that I lost