Sorry, folks, but I’ve got a lot of press in my hometown and just have to share this one which was written by … me. The Shenandoah, Iowa Education Foundation asked to write about my high school days in Shenandoah High School for a column called “Alumni Reflections” and I was only too happy to […]
Saturday, December 4: The phone rings as I am going outside and my husband signals me furiously with the hand that isn’t on the phone. “Be careful”, he mouthed. His friend on the other end of the line had called to see how we were because he had just watched “casseurs” (thugs) running down our
People sometimes wonder about me. Mostly, they wonder about how I got to Paris, France from Shenandoah, Iowa, and why I stayed. Actually, when I was in college in the not all that far away state of Michigan, people wondered, even asked me “how I got out of Iowa”. I would stare at them to
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