Whena mother begged him to take her little girl in, he did notknow what to do. At that moment his wife dashed outside and pushed the girl in. Her act set him thinking hard. Just a moment before the first bomb struck he made a big decision. After giving his elder son a few ...
That’s why it was such a delight to be approached by the wonderful people at Betimes Books, a small independent Irish publisher that curates the novels it wants to publish. This year, they selectedAGood Enough Motheras the first title in their new and improved publishing venture, and in ...
That is how I’ve been feeling lately. My mother is experiencing memory loss, and has been for some time. This was brought home to me in a dramatic way recently, when I saw how confused she was in a large store. I realized that we had turned a corner–we are in deeper waters than...
You know that as my mother preached I wiped away the tears that fell from women’s eyes, some of them slain in the Spirit and hopping from the back of one pew to the next, all the way up to the front of the church and then all the way back again, never missing a jump and neve...
35) evokes the image of a young woman who was as enterprising as she was versatile and educated. In December 1912, Elsa Taussig became engaged to the writer and lawyer Max Brod, whom she married in 1913, comparatively late by the standards of the time. According to an obituary written by...