Final clue in the Jeopardy! Masters finals tonight, and 1 of 3 remembered: Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the exclusion issued in 1942 Executive Order 9066. Dissenting justice Frank Murphy wrote the exclusion [...]
On the Friday before Labor Day in 1994, when literature teacher Faith impulsively flies to Italy to chase after her destiny, I get it. She doesn’t have any classes to teach until Wednesday! I [...]
The Peace of Wild Things “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1970s. Twenty-year-old Gemi Visser has always felt caught between worlds. Raised in a lively canal house by the family she knows and loves, Gemi has built a life filled with flowers, [...]
Happy Sesquicentennial to Colorado! Born 1876 and still going strong in 2026, 150 years of purple mountain majesties (“America The Beautiful” was written about Pikes Peak). Our state flower is the Rocky Mountain columbine, [...]
Peaceful interlude under my pergola beside aspen trees this morning. Does anyone else pair their cardboard bread (whole grains, protein, fiber, omegas, seeds) with sliced strawberries? I know it’s more of a Dutch tradition [...]
What are you writing which catches your attention and challenges your ideas? Some authors are not sure what they think about something until they brainstorm with notes or bullet journaling. I bring along a [...]
First-time college parent preparing to send your baby to university? Shopping and packing while weeping? The trek to college is emotional. My job as mama is to make myself obsolete, and to send into [...]
Today is Diny's 105th birthday, which I hope she is celebrating with a lekker Rijsttafel in Heaven.I am dearly fond of my Nico and Diny, my Opa and Oma. They were as most pictures [...]
Spain’s World Cup win is so deserved! With Nico Williams’ header to Ferran Torres, they finally scored. Argentina did not even have a shot on goal until Messi’s 117th minute blocked shot. With 11 [...]
