My many years as wife, mother of four, teacher, friend, and volunteer deserve a book of their own. However, the focus of my memoir, Like A Haystack, is on my early foundational years. Our formative years affect us in ways we cannot fathom, and they, in turn, affect how we interact with our spouses and children and others with whom we come in contact. Attitudes and tendencies are subtle characteristics that we take for granted and overlook in ourselves. Through…..
Do what you have to do and move on” seems to have been my life’s theme in my early years and it carried through many decades of my adult life. My family left our farm in Croatia in 1943 during WWII when I was less than a year old. After two years of movement as displaced persons, we lived in Austria from 1945-1952. In Austria I learned the German language and a new culture. Croatia became just word to me…..