Memories Never Made

October 24, 2015

I’m a big proponent of writing your life story; I often think about the phrase that when we die, our …

Finding My Identity in a Dutch Cemetery – Part 3

January 28, 2013

Even though I didn’t feel Dutch on a 2001 trip to the Netherlands, finding my maiden name, Hoitenga, on tombstones …

January 21, 2013

In Part 1 of this “identity” story, I wrote about finding a cemetery surrounding a church in Witmarsum, the town …

January 14, 2013

I’m off to Aruba this week (see my header, the palm trees beckon), but come along with me on a …