by Admin | Nov 8, 2017 | Children, Conflagration, family, human rights, Memoir
Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story Reviewed by: Janet Levine “As Bauer writes the fight against Boko Haram is far from over. His final sentence encapsulates Nigeria’s nightmare: ‘We have fear. We have hope.’” Stolen Girls by Wolfgang Bauer is not...
by Admin | Aug 14, 2016 | Conflagration, Election 2016, Hillary, human rights, saga
Image published by Huffington Post, August 10 My Thought #1 I feel pity for Donald Drumpf because now I see him for what he is—yes, you read correctly—pity and sorrow, but still despising and despairing about what he stands for and what he’s done to our country. He...
by Admin | Aug 3, 2016 | apartheid, Children, Conflagration, mind structure, reconciliation, teaching tales, Uncategorized, young adults
MY HEARTFELT APPEAL DIRECTED TO REPUBLICAN LEADERS TO DITCH DRUMPF. LET’S PUT OUR COUNTRY BACK ON A PATH OF SANITY. HE IS AMERICA’S GREATEST FAILURE. For most of my adult life I’ve been an educator, as well as a freelance journalist and an author, an international...
by Admin | Jan 22, 2013 | apartheid, Conflagration, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, literary agent, Sharpeville massacre, South Africa, teaching tales
This is a cautionary tale told by an experienced practitioner (me) directed mainly at myself to heed my own words. Earlier this week I received copies of the Portuguese translation of my parenting book, Que Pai Ou Mae Quer Ser?. Definitely an “UP” moment...
by Admin | Sep 8, 2012 | apartheid, Conflagration, creativity, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, Leela's Gift, literary agent, Sharpeville massacre, South Africa
In my last post on this topic I blogged on some aspects of the relationship of writers and editors. For myself I can report that while there is progress with my latest project, a historical novel, it is a vexed adventure. As you can see from the title of this post I...
by Admin | Mar 11, 2010 | apartheid, Children, Conflagration, creativity, historical fiction, human rights, Sharpeville massacre, Uncategorized
On March 21 1960 the South African police shot and killed 69 people–men, women and children–at the police station in the dusty East Rand township of Sharpeville, South Africa. Almost two hundred more were injured. Almost all were shot in the back as they...
