January 2010
4 posts
Sarah's Key
I am haunted by the story in the book I just finished, Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. The story of a small girl woken up in the middle of the night in occupied Paris in July 1942 - the French (not German) police took her family away. Her story is intertwined with that of a 45 year old American/French journalist who is writing a story of the 60th anniversary of this fateful night in...
Another Anniversary
I had an “Anniversary” post last year on January 6th. Today, as all January 6ths, I feel nostalgic and removed. My mother’s memory is a shadow that is always with me. Why is my feeling this day different? Perhaps it is the jarring reality of losing a mother, a best friend, too soon, and three days before my first child was born. My 9 year old son woke me this morning by...
