Wrangling a book manuscript through an umpteenth revision in the deep freeze of a Michigan winter is reason enough to be seeing the world through a blue filter. Something more has been at work, however, haunting the always-vulnerable boundaries of the writer safe space where an author’s sense of herself lives, and where the best work happens. Call it a case of the second book blues. A simple Google search reveals that plenty of writers have shared this experience. A second bo

Your intrepid author recently began using the social media platform, Instagram. The following is a comment that appeared on a post I did on remembering Klare and Even in Darkness for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Your book provided the motivation for me to finally visit The Holocaust Museum which is 2 miles from our Arlington house. I knew and had read about the Holocaust and attended a school where, at age 16, we were shown the Allied films of the liberated camp