On the Writing of American Shoes

The evolution and writing of American Shoes took nearly eight years, a wild, enlightening, gut-wrenching, and unexpected journey into my family’s past. It was a venture that began rather innocently, in 2012, when I took a German friend up on her offer to come visit her in Munich. We traveled to five countries over the […]

The Romani Girl (The Girl With the Strange Name)

A family of Romani people, maybe ten or twelve in all, had set up camp along the border of a patch of woods and some meadows that was on my way to school. They fascinated me from the start, with their horse-drawn covered wagons, their colorful attire and their expressive language that I couldn’t understand. […]