My novel “No Time to Cry” has traveled around the globe. I am so touched that it has helped many to sooth their pain and gave support by giving them strength to overcome their ordeals and go on. When I was writing the novel, my most inner wish was to reach out to people with my emotional intelligence, pain is no stranger to me. Finally my novel “No Time to Cry” has arrived home, The National Library of Latvia, “Castle…..
The WW II was over, the price and sacrifice all Europe had paid for their hard earned freedom was overwhelming; the loss to ordinary people caught in the middle was difficult to estimate. Time is so unforgiving, it just moves on, leaving it up to the individuals to start all over again. Start over again? There were only ashes, families torn apart and broken hearts left. My childhood home was gone, all the things I loved stolen from me. The…..
Today is Mother’s Day. It is sunny and warm, just right to enjoy the garden. All those glorious spring flowers! I remember how in 1944, during our flight to freedom in WW ll, I was looking for flowers to give my mother. I was seven years old then. All around me was just ruins and scorched trees. The meadows had been turned into small volcanos, instead of lava, smoke and debris kept coming up after the powerful blasts. All seemed…..