Secret Agents

Secret Agents

Secret Agent | Photo by Francesca Tirico on Unsplash Of the Divine Conspiracy Thomas, Micah, Esther, Michael. The idea began with Thomas, he suggested that I should offer to give an interview and Micah applied on my behalf to the USC Shoah Foundation, Last Chance...
Belonging

Belonging

A German Reckons with History and Home Sometimes a book finds you, rather than you discovering a good read that satisfies your curiosity. Nora Krug’s book Belonging. A German Reckons with History and Home did just that. How did Belonging gain my attention? George and...
Sent to Coventry

Sent to Coventry

Reconciliation (originally named Reunion) is a sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos | Photo source: Jim Linwood Sent to Coventry An English idiom meaning to ostracize, or exclude I was sent to Coventry… A seven year old Jewish child, from a small, rural town at the...
Guns and Roses

Guns and Roses

Stolperstein for my parents, July 1, 2013. Gemünd, Germany | Photo by Thomas Cogdell Writing a blog, trying to unravel tangled thoughts. I am a German/Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents perished in Poland, sitting at home in Arizona,  on a cool January day,...
I Stand Amazed…

I Stand Amazed…

Opening Day Ceremony, Arizona House of Representatives | Photographer: Ryan Thurman How did I come to stand before the Arizona House of Representatives in Phoenix, on January 9, 2023? And why am I amazed? Michael Hunter a good friend, of many years, is Chief of Staff...