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Sheelytown Just Released

Sheelytown is a historical fiction released in September 2022.  Based on true events, it tells of one Polish girl’s life as she struggles to survive and build a family in Sheelytown, an infamous ethnic town within the city of Omaha in the early 1900s…...
My Facebook Author Page

My Facebook Author Page

You are welcome to check out my Facebook Author Page. It helps explain where I got the inspiration for writing about my grandmother’s life at the turn of the 20th Century and World War I for The Commandant’s Daughter. Charlotte Wichmann was her name and...
4th Grade Trauma – Is that Possible?

4th Grade Trauma – Is that Possible?

In fourth grade, I was nine years old.  It was a traumatic year since I had to walk one mile to school with my younger brother going to kindergarten. Why? I asked.  We lived across the street from St. Bernard’s School. That’s where I had been going to school...
All Girls’ High School for Kindergarten?

All Girls’ High School for Kindergarten?

You don’t have to be very old for a boy to realize he’s walking into an embarrassing situation. Even though we lived across the street from the Catholic grade school, they didn’t have Kindergarten. OK, so maybe another church or school.  I could live with that. But...
Just published — The Commandant’s Daughter

Just published — The Commandant’s Daughter

Charlotte Wichmann, a Prussian Commandant’s Daughter, looks for romance in the social circles of 20th Century Europe. Unfulfilled with life, Charlotte joins her father and brother in World War I. Caring for soldiers in near-death situations as a nurse, she holds...
How to win friends with a Tonka truck

How to win friends with a Tonka truck

I tried to make friends as a preschooler when there was never such a thing back then and my first encounter was Terry M. Second oldest of the M clan of 11. A year older than me at about 5. We met at the open-wired fence that separated our two yards. He’d try to hit me...