S1: War Stories and Celebration
My life hasn't been interesting enough this last week to do a Quick Takes post, so I thought I would go ahead and begin my story posts instead. Since returning from vacation I have spent the majority of my time holed up in my apartment avoiding the outside world. I've done a lot more reading than I have in a long time! First, I read The Pianist by Wladislaw Szpilman , and the other day I started Bess W. Truman by Margaret Truman (I am about a third of the way into it). The first was (as most of you know) a memoir about a Polish Jew's survival in Warsaw during WWII. The second covered a little about WWI, especially as it affected Kansas City, Missouri, and now I am into the portion on the Great Depression. All of these subjects remind me of my friend Millie , another great storyteller in my life whom I forgot to mention in my post on storytelling . I met Millie several years ago in Joplin...I believe she was 93 at the time. She passed away in April 2011 at the age of ...