An article about my Tante Rachel and her visit to U.S. from Norway in 1950 The following article is from the March 26, 1950 edition of the Rochester, NY Democrat and Chronicle A D.D.S. From Toensberg, NorwayA woman dentist from Norway and a youngster from the U. S. are not an unusual combination at the …
Category: History
Life During the Occupation
A letter from my Aunt Rachel Jullum in Norway, to my Grandmother Tordis Jullum Bornholdt in the United States after World War II Translated from the original Norwegian Tonsberg, Norway1945 Dear Tordis, At last, I can write to you again after these awful years. You have no idea of how things have been and what …
289 Steps
I wrote the following the day after my visit to Omaha Beach in Normandy in September, 2013. Sharing it for Memorial Day. 289 Steps. Nothing particularly notable about that. Walking leisurely, it took me a little over 2 minutes to walk those 289 steps. It was not a physically challenging thing to do. Something I …
Lessons learned… (an act of violence and thoughts on the passing of a classmate)
Lessons learned long ago from a friend….and an act of violence.