Jennie Lance is participating in our book signing at the OLLI Authors’ Day, March 7th  from 11:00 AM to 1:30  PM.  Location: California State University, Fullerton, Pollak Library.  For more information click HERE. In The House of Tomorrow, a memoir by Jennie Lance, she delves into the … Continue reading In The House of Tomorrow

Ruth Shapin is participating in our book signing at the OLLI Authors’Day, March 7th  from 11:00 AM to 1:30  PM.  Location: California State University, Fullerton Pollak Library.  For more information click HERE. “One Human Family” is a poetry book with poems about war, the Middle East, … Continue reading One Human Family

Meet and chat with OLLI authors presenting their books on a wide range of subjects: fiction, nonfiction, children’s stories, poetry, self-help, educational, memoir and more.  CSUF-Pollak Library, West Gallery, on Thursday, March 7th from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM. See … Continue reading Meet the Authors

An Inward Smile by  Lorna Densmore Funk Lorna’s poems are featured in her chapbook originally printed shortly before her death in March of 2009.  The log cabin on the cover was thematic to her beginnings.  She was born in a log cabin and … Continue reading An Inward Smile

I’m dead… I’ve gone to Heaven I believe come… join me when you can just get here if you can Until then… think about me when I was up pray for me when I was not Oh, the combination to … Continue reading My Dear Progeny

Count Every Vote (November 6, 2018) The current ballot system is unwieldly and overwhelming if not out-and-out broken. As an observer of the voting process at precincts and at the Registrar of Voters (ROV) count process I am amazed that … Continue reading

  In darkness I am sitting at the window my rifle on my lap in readiness. Friend Karl is sleeping on the bed he was on guard the first half of the night. We are in a tiny room of … Continue reading Day Five–a Window!

I always considered my German heritage dominating my life.  My name alone bespeaks German—Fritz von Coelln.  Fritz, the nickname for King Fredrick II of Prussia for instance and von Coelln (von Cölln) means from Cöln, a city that was enveloped … Continue reading “Jordgubbar”