i've been writing so much about my mother and her family and very little about my father.  well, until recently, i thought i knew all there was to know about my father's family.  but now there's been yet another major familial wake-up call.  my father's family were 'danish jews.' ...

From an email I received recently: Most people have seen the Steve McQueen movie The Great Escape at least once. This is about that tunnel. The story is awesome; the interactive map is also creative, not nearly as much as the fortitude it took to engineer the escape itself. The animation alone is wo...