By mid-afternoon, after hours of crafting and deleting sentences at the computer, my brain is stale and flat as yesterday’s club soda. Even my characters, struggling through the dramas of 1936 in Paris, are begging for a break. Time for a walk in nature. My Yosemite, my Niagra Falls, my Amazon River, is Central Park. […]
A good host always tidies up the house before the guests arrive. But some hosts have more to shove into the closet than others. For the 1936 Olympics, Hitler got busy sweeping the more blatant horrors of his regime under the rug. He even went so far as to remove official anti-Jewish signs from Berlin […]
In the 1930s refugees poured into France, fleeing Hitler’s reign of terror in Germany . Mainly Jews, but also gays, communists, radicals, intellectuals — all those persecuted by the Nazis found a home in France. At least, that is, until the Germans occupied France in 1940 and set up their puppet Vichy regime. Yet France, this […]