With all my precious childhood memories I had to reflect on, I decided in 1991 to put pen to paper and write an account of these times, with the intention these words becoming a book.
I want to leave in this book something of a record of the past, as I remember it. Usually, life passes on, leaving just a few photographs and memories as grandmas and grandads recollect. These sometimes are forgotten, as the older generations pass away and life flies forward, taken up with new experiences. New babies are born, the younger generations become adults, and there is not always time to think of the past.
Winding forward to the year 2021, these are unsettling times, with so many families losing loved ones to such an awful pandemic. On a comparison, I now reflect what my family faced: life hardships, fears of war, tragedies of losing children and loved ones.
I hope my grandchildren and their descendants will have pleasure in finding out about my grandparents and those who lived before them.
Me as a girl.
