Eunice Boeve

Hitler, the maniacal mastermind of the Nazi party committed suicide shortly before Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces on May 8, 1945. In those last months of the war in Europe, American soldiers had captured thousands of Hitler’s boy soldiers, ages 12 to 17. Some boys as young as 8 had (more…)

When my sister-in-law used hypnosis to deliver her baby without drugs and pain free, I seized on the idea and eagerly approached my doctor about it for my next pregnancy. It only made me sick. When he had me lie down on my back, pick out a spot on (more…)

Atheist and Christmas

I was wondering the other day if atheists celebrate Christmas. Well, I found out they sure do. They like gifts just as much as anyone else and they like the smell of pine and the soft shimmering lights of the tree. They like that the tree was once a pagan symbol and perhaps decry the fact that it been modified, so to speak, for (more…)

The other day I ran across my husband’s first autograph book. He received the book the year he was nine, but that year of 1941 he collected few writings. The majority of writings from classmates and relatives were in the next years. The last dated entry is 1946. Most of the autographs were in rhyme (more…)

A new art form came into being in 1913 when the Buffalo nickel was minted. The size, thickness, and the relative softness of the coin, featuring a buffalo on one side and the profile of an Indian on the other, attracted a new kind of artist, the wandering man. Those hobo artists with their small (more…)

The Europeans, who invaded this country and pushed the Indian people from the land they’d always called home, probably had to see those they were displacing, by all means possible, as non-human. For much of what they did was certainly inhuman. Of course, the whites could point across the chasm to the Indians’ (more…)

It is said that before a tsunami roars onto land, the animals will have already moved to higher ground. I remember reading some years ago that before an earthquake hit in Italy a donkey began to bray and move nervously about. Such an animal was once the subject of Abraham Lincoln’s wry humor. (more…)

Rip Van Winkle and Sleeping Beauty may have had it, or more accurately their authors may have had either personal experience with the disease or at least known of it. For Encephalitis Lethargica or Sleeping Sickness may have been around since the dawn of time. Recorded accounts of cases of unexplained sleep go back (more…)

A keynote speaker at John Hopkins some years ago, Jacquie Gordon, told of losing a twenty-one year old daughter. Her other daughter, age fifteen, succumbed to depression and anorexia in her efforts to make up for her parent’s loss. “Don’t be selfish about tragedy,” Gordon said. “It isn’t just the mother (more…)

A Native American Tale

One day the Creator watched a group of village children at play, running, laughing, singing, and a deep sadness filled him for he knew those young, nimble, happy children would grow old and infirm, their hair silver, their skin wrinkled, their steps slow. The Creator looked at the flowers blooming (more…)