Monday 16 December 2024 The moment I finish grading the last student’s final exam (Finals Week begins this week), I will return to my Katyn manuscript.  Although my slightly younger self would have liked to have had proofread the Summer 2024 revised draft this past September, I am glad I didn’t. ...

Monday 09 December 2024 You served as my Katyn manuscript reader.  You bore witness when I conceived of the idea of writing a book about the Katyn Massacres and when I revised the manuscript to a memoir, not a scholarly work.  You read several different versions of the manuscript: fragments...

Monday 02 December 2024 The etymology of “acknowledgment” points to a recognition, a revelation, and a discovery.  And when I think of all the people (and my dog, Laska) who have in their own unique ways inspired, coached, and helped me during the writing process of my Katyn manuscript, I must...

Monday 25 November 2024 After convincing myself that I not only can but must write a children’s book, I next posed to myself the following technical questions: Whom would I be writing for? (target audience); What kind of story—fiction or nonfiction? (genre); and What would be the narrative drama? (in...

Monday 18 November 2024 Since I have embraced the idea of writing a children’s book, I now understand that what my conscious mind dismissed as a silly impulsive “joke,” is what my unconscious mind insists I need to work on next.  Numerous seasons of writing (and living with) my Katyn memoir have...