My first assignment in the Army was as a platoon leader in Mannheim, Germany. The US was still involved in a cold war with the Soviet Union. My unit had HETs—heavy equipment transporters. Due to their size, weight and cargo, often M60 tanks, driving on the autobahns required special clearances from the Germans and the…
I think that is the end goal — to say my life was well lived. Along the way I see I have found may role models. Uncle Kenny and Aunt Val are providing me continuing role models of how to live life well. So is Aunt Jo. Today I was lucky enough to see them…
Evocative advice. Unfortunately, my flow would leave me reading a selection chosen by my book group rather than The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life, not a title that rolls off the tongue or one I’d be inclined to choose if I were browsing the library shelves. The 95…
A well-researched, lively volume that leavens the Ellis Island experience with humor, fairy-tale magic, and an appealing plot — Kirkus Review My new book SAILING BACK TO ELLIS ISLAND, due to be published next month, got its second GREAT review. Besides my favorite part, quoted above, Kirkus Review also says, “Collen admirably balances fact and fiction…
Here today, gone tomorrow. Really, it’s gone instantaneously. What am I talking about? Time. We act like we have forever ahead of us, which isn’t the case. Because we don’t know how much time is left and we don’t treasure it like the precious, non-renewable resource that it is. The older I get, the more that…
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