When was the last time God surprised you? I mean really surprised you? Sometimes life starts moving so fast that I forget to stop and remember what God is doing. Here are a couple examples. Last May I started wondering if I would need to get a MBA at some point. Because I teach business law in graduate business programs …
Anne Frank Died Here: Bergen-Belsen
While our summer in Germany was an amazing opportunity and experience, one of the things I wanted to experience was the reality of a concentration camp. Because we were traveling with very young children, my husband was cautious about viewing a site like Dachau. However, one of our new German friends told us of a smaller camp located only 25 …
Shadowed by Grace Interview
Shadowed by Grace, your latest novel, involves a unique group of soldiers dedicated to saving art and architecture during WWII. What got you interested in the Monuments Men? It was one of those God moments. I have deep respect and admiration for the men and women of the Greatest Generation, and I love telling their stories. Because of that, I’m …
Shadowed by Grace: Fact or Fiction?
I love history. I always have. That’s one reason I minored in history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It’s also why I love writing historical fiction set during World War II. I also have a great respect for the men and women of the Greatest Generation. I want to tell their stories well and honor what they did. That leads me …
Living Monuments to WWII: Aegidientorplatz
One of the things the Monuments Men when they arrived in a village or city was to look for thei historical landmarks and assess them for damage. When we were in Germany during the summer of 2012, we discovered that a tradition in some cities was to leave one of the destroyed churches as a living monument to those killed …
Why Write about the Monuments Men?
Books are born many ways. Shadowed by Grace started when I walked by a display at our local library the summer of 2010. There a new non-fiction book stood cover out. The photo on the front piqued my interest: a clearly WWII soldier standing with a large painting. The stories I read in that book, Monuments Men, by Robert Edsel, …
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