We’re about to leave on a journey to Auschwitz via Vienna, Bratislava and Poprod to honour the first transport of Jewish women to the death camp on March 26th. 1942. Heather Macadam, author of Rena’s Promise: The Story of Two Sisters in Auscwhitz, is the moving force behind this event. […]
Rena’s Promise
Earlier this month I had the honour of teaching at a new summer camp for teen writers, which was held on Shelter Island, New York, from July 2-9th. Created in memory of an Auschwitz survivor, Rena Gelissen, the central character in the inspirational Holocaust memoir, Rena’s Promise, by the camp’s […]
Rena’s Promise International Youth Writers Camp
I am pleased to announce that my new Memoir, River of Desire: A Journey Of The Heart Through Patagonia, is now Live on Kindle: http://tiny.cc/RDesire It’s been a long journey, in every sense, but I am very proud of the result. I hope you all enjoy it, too!
River of Desire
On Saturday night we celebrated the 50th. birthday of a wonderfully talented writer, Heather Dune Macadam, author of one of the classic accounts of Auschwitz, Rena’s Promise, and my partner. There were about 30 of us at Indian Cove restaurant here in Hampton Bays, we had the most perfect evening, […]