The Diarists

23 Oct 202223 Oct 2022

Mary Berg (Wattenberg) 1924–2013 Helene Berr -1921–1945 Ruth Maier-192–1942 As a historian of the Holocaust, specifying in Holocaust diaries and letters, sometimes they seem to find me. I was just…

Eva (Chava)

10 Feb 2022

This year, I have been able to speak to Chava's children, mainly her daughter Tamar. She is wonderful. I am writing a book that includes Chava (Eva) and her late…

Felicitas (Wolf) Garda

6 Jan 2022

Felicitas Wolf Garda (1920-2006) Darci Shaw as Felicitas In the novel "Otto" it is told from Felicitas' perspective. Felicitas is Otto Wolf's older sister. She was the only sibling to…

Otto

6 Jan 20226 Jan 2022

Darci Shaw as Felicitas Wolf (Garda) Thomasin Mckenzie as Joby Otto Wolf (1927-1945) In my new novel, I tell the true story of Otto Wolf and his family, through the…

My Grandpa: The Texan and the warrior

12 Nov 202112 Nov 2021

My Dad's family, before they go to Church My grandpa was not a religious man- never was. He hated priests - he thought they were all pedophiles- he had a…

Losing Jane

19 Sep 2021

Jane Powell (1929-2021) Jane Powell died on September 16, 2021 at the age of 92. I am at a loss of words. I didn't think she'd go now. Was she…

The Worst Time

10 Aug 2021

Connor, CJ and Darcy I just got word from my friends in Australia that their dad lost his battle with cancer. I am at a loss for words. I knew…

3 Years Without Gloria

1 Aug 2021

This year will mark 3 years without my friend, Gloria Jean. We first were introduced to me through email in January of 2015. My friend Madison managed to email her…

Letters Between Friends

28 Jul 202128 Jul 2021

I was looking through my emails and I didn't realize that Gloria Jean had typed up about four-six letters that Deanna wrote her in 2002. She also typed up her…

Behind Parrish

18 Jul 202118 Jul 2021

Helen Parrish only lived to be thirty-five. Helen  Virginia Parrish was born on March 12, 1923, in Georgia. Her career began at the tender age of three, she had a…