Farewell to Casey Dog

Writer's Journal: Sadly, my dog Casey passed away from old age. He had arthritis and other serious health problems. When younger, he was also known by friends as Dogzilla because of his huge size. I miss him every day. Now that I am doing so much research for books set in Poland, Alaska and Idaho/Nevada, I won't get another dog. He had a second home with Angie at the Top Dog kennel, and I am grateful to her for Casey's great care.

Incredible treasures from Nubia

Writer's Journal: Greetings from Warsaw, Poland. Work continues on my novel set in 1944 Poland during the Resistance/Rising.  I had a lovely time at the National Museum in Warsaw. It was quite sobering, however, to think that this incredible building with priceless, irreplaceable art and sculpture, was burnt and reduced to rubble in 1944 by the Nazis.  Since this was a second visit, I spent most of my time in front of the Nubian religious art discovered in a church in northern Sudan by Polish anthropologists in 1961. The works were taken just before the area was flooded by the Nasser Dam to the north in Egypt. They were shared with the then-Sudan government and now are at the national museum there in Khartoum. Yes, I would love to conduct research there also.