Monthly Archives: August 2019
I recently had an interview with Al Cole, the host of a popular radio network show called People of Distinction. We discussed the book I had written, The Girl From Copenhagen. The book is a memoir about my mother, Inge Peterson, who died in January 2018. It is the story of an immigrant who left her homeland of Denmark to start a new life in America. The memoir includes a photo section, culled from my mother’s albums, which follows her…..
I very much doubt that I would have written I Was Hitler’s Baker if it had not been for the stories my parents told me of their experiences during World War II. I can remember studying the second world war in the eighth grade. Sitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg. The Normandy invasion. But these lessons were dull and dusty. My parents’ accounts, however, made the war come alive for me. In 1940 my mother and her family were witnesses to the German invasion…..
I am not a person who likes to go to doctors. I have not seen a dentist in over 40 years. And never having been sick before, nor having any health concerns, I did not have a doctor of my own to go to after a recent hospitalization. So I made an appointment to see my mother’s longtime doctor. It felt strange paying a visit to my mother’s doctor after her death. In the past, Mother would climb up onto…..
