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Something About Me and My Book:: I'm a reader turned writer, a senior loving my garden, ballroom dancing, public speaking and book signings! At first I wrote health related books and magazine articles. Though a romantic at heart with a very interesting life, I was pushed to write my memoir after a speaking engagement. So I did. "We Don't Talk About That" is set against the economic-political backround after WWI bringing Hitler to power and an account of living through WWII as a child of an ordinary family, surviving the Russian Invasion of Germany in 1945, watching rape, murder, starvation, death; My mother with four small children was just one of millions of Germans evicted from the eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland. The war had already ended but we didn't know that. We were on the road to nowhere next to the Russian war machinery on their way to Berlin. I lived ten years as a child under the Nazis, ten years aas a growing teenager under Communist rule (not much different) and then ten years in the "Golden West" after my escape before the Berlin Wall. I experienced a new beginning as a 2.class citizen in the west in 1955, abuse by a superior, being stalked, facing a gun, but never gave up trying to get away. A confrontation with a convicted rapist gave me the final push to leave the country and emigrate to Canada - into the unknown. Those thirty years make up my memoir "We Don't Talk About That" and the concensus of my readers is '..couldn't put it down' ..'reads like a Spielberg movie' and more of the same. It's partially horryfying, historically educational but always entertaining. My newest book "Forget Me Not" is "A Bouquet of Stories, Thoughts, and Memories" about people and world happenings which have greatly influenced me and I see this book
as a link to the sequel for "We Don't Talk About That" - forthcoming at the end of the year. Working title: "Crossing The Bridge". I have no choice and have to write it because too many readers worldwide keep sending e-mails, asking "What happened then? When can we read more of your life?"