Some places stay quiet, even years later.
There are places where the world feels different, even when you do not yet understand why.
Some connections feel like they belong to a different lifetime. Not because they mattered any less, but because life moved on the way it always does ….
Before we left for Giessen to meet Dad, I remember Mom taking our car to be shipped to Germany. It was a 1962 white Chevrolet station wagon….
“Sprechen Sie Deutsch?” was one of the first expressions I learned while living in Germany. It means, “Do you speak German?” ….
We moved to Barling, Arkansas, a few weeks before Christmas, not long after Dad returned from his second tour of Korea in the Army …