“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to […]
When we have difficult circumstances to deal with, a lot of what helps us get through are our internal strengths. We all have them – different ones, more of some, less of others. Now when we’re blinded by the night of darkness and overwhelmed, we often don’t know we have them, certainly don’t see them […]
My January interview starts off here with my interviewee’s My Turn article published in Newsday, a New York newspaper. STAYING THE COURSE In March 2000, my husband and I, after 23 years of marriage, decided to legally separate. The very next day, my 71-year-old mother was killed in a car accident on […]