by Meta Evenbly | Oct 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am getting more and more restless. And yet, I find I have less energy. Our problems have been going on for about 9 months, with only more trouble in sight. It has been far too long. My fellow Americans and I are basically struggling with three problems: Covid-19,...
by Meta Evenbly | Aug 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
My husband’s mother August 23 was the birthday of my mother-in-law, Marie Johanna, called Rita. To me she was ‘mother’. I met her when I was 17 and she was 43 years old. She lived to be 82 and as her whole generation, she had to cope with two world...
by Meta Evenbly | Aug 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
On August 21 in 1907, my mother, Auguste Weidmann, was born in Bottrop in Westphalen. She was the youngest of five sisters: Anna, Ciska, Paula, Agnes and my mom Auguste. The name suited her well. There were also at least five brothers that I know of. I have known only...
by Meta Evenbly | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
In 2017, I wrote this: May 5, 1945. I was 10 years old. Liberation day! Finally it had come and not a day too soon. We really could not believe it finally happened. But then our Canadian liberators drove through our streets. Tank after tank after tank. Everybody...
by Meta Evenbly | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Many years ago, someone phoned me to ask about my leg. They lived 3000 miles from me. How did they know that I had trouble with my leg? When I was a teenager, suddenly, without apparent reason, I felt very physically ill, unable to say what was the matter. I felt as...
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