The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham "How can one imagine not being hungry?" Primo Levi asks in his account of his experiences at Auschwitz. The camp "is hunger: we ourselves are hunger, living hunger". According to Lizzie Collingham's ambitious new …
Homesick-Heimwee
Heroism, Heimwee- homecoming hero, what feeds you?
Heimwee- homecoming hero, what feeds you? "Just appreciate us. And consider us survivors, not heroes. I am not a hero; I’m strictly a survivor." from Veteran Wilbur Sharpe, this Memorial Day about being a POW in Germany from June 1943 to Jan. 21, 1945 (Ashburn Patch Newspaper, Ashburn, VA). He …
End of the World Tomorrow
“Don’t you know it’s the end of the world Saturday?” Everyone at Peet’s coffee in Morgan Hill is saying this. I'm an early a.m. regular because being here helps me to keep writing...no laundry, no family wandering in and out to get me away from the keyboard. But this is a huge distraction, the end …
