by RobertTownsend | Dec 25, 2022 | Deception, Family, Germany
Christmas Morning with grandchildren (Horsmonden, United Kingdom) Patrice and I are spending Christmas with Michelle and Nigel in Horsmonden, UK. We had met them a week ago in Calais to drive to Bruges, Belgium, for the Christmas Market, then onto England to spend the...
by RobertTownsend | Dec 15, 2022 | Family, Resurrection, Russia, Soviet Union
Semur-en-Auxios, France The weather in France has turned cold, between 30-34F. I hear guffaws all the way from Northern Wisconsin. A blizzard sweeps across the northern plains and into the Northwoods as I type. Today is an anniversary of sorts. Patrice and I arrived...
by RobertTownsend | Oct 3, 2022 | Deception, Family, Germany
For these past two + years Patrice and I became acquainted, grace a covid, with the medieval trails and French citizens in Semur-en-Auxios, France. No complaints. The Burgundian landscape is rolling and beautiful, its farmers are meticulous...
by RobertTownsend | Nov 9, 2019 | Book Reviews, Family, Germany
On 16-17 October, The United States Holocaust Museum sponsored Patrice’s 89-year-old Uncle Kurt Maier, Emeritus Librarian, Library of Congress (German collection), lectures at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library. Kurt, a Holocaust survivor with a wicked...
by RobertTownsend | Sep 22, 2019 | Family
Honor Flight September 1, 2019 -- Northern Wisconsin On Labor Day week-end, 2019 I joined 200+ veterans and guardians on the local Honor Flight To Washington, D.C. I went grudgingly… Marcia, my daughter, had long ago signed me up. Patrice, my wife, more or less...
by RobertTownsend | Oct 28, 2017 | Family
I am a hard case for the homilists of Holy Wisdom, the Benedictine Monastery, Madison, Wisconsin, where I attend mass. I tend to zone out. However, the first reading during last week’s mass, Numbers 27:1-11. caught my attention. Here, before Moses, the daughters...