My Worst Nightmare: Plagiarism
Just writing about plagiarism makes me nervous. It’s such an important part of my world and so easy to do, I probably over check my work, paragraph by paragraph.
read moreResearch Reminders II
It’s never enough to remind ourselves about the deep dives online that get us in trouble by not looking critically at websites when we are looking for information online. Every day there is another scam and misinformation for the unsuspecting. So, below are tips to...
read moreResearch is a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be..
While the Internet is magic in that it brings the world to your fingertips, it is also a big problem if you don’t follow some basic rules. There is a lot of junk and misinformation out there and you can get into a lot of trouble if you are not careful and discerning....
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How genealogy figures in to “Regina of Warsaw”
The phrase, “children’s orphanages” were not words that ever came up in my life and circles. When most of us think of orphanages, we think of Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist. His story gruesomely illustrates the cruelty of life for children, women, and the poor in Victorian London. He tells of the horrors of life in an unscrupulous orphanage owner like Mr. Bumble, or the likes of Bill Sykes.
read moreA Parent’s Sacrifice for Hope – To Save a Child’s Life
Ilse never saw her family again. For a short while she received some letters from them through the Red Cross. “He [her father] wrote into my diary saying he hoped his words would give me courage and comfort, knowing not when or where we would meet again. During the war, the Red Cross forwarded correspondence, until about 1941 or 1942. The letters stopped and I learned my mother and sister were shipped to Therezin and later Auschwitz and murdered by the Nazis.”
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In honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s passing San Francisco Literary Scene
“A place of escape, refuge, and salvation from the rest of America” “It’s the dream city at the edge of the continent, an exotic jumble of cultures, a fogbound oasis offering freedom and escape for people hoping to shed the past and begin anew.” San Francisco...
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