Horseshoe Crabs Mate
in Annual Beach "Orgy"
Up and down the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, horseshoe crabs,
which have been around for some 450 million years (200 million years before dinosaurs),
are spawning. The crabs live in the ocean year-round but come ashore
like clockwork every year between the May and June full moons to lay eggs.
The First Official,
All-Female Jewish Transport
to Auschwitz
On March 20, 1942, Slovakia ordered unmarried Jewish women
ages 16 to 32 to register for government work. Many of them,
even though they had never spent a night away from their homes,
eagerly volunteered for what they thought would be three months
of work at a shoe or munitions factory. Impeccably dressed
and coiffed, dragging suitcases filled with handmade clothing
and kosher food packed by their mothers, they boarded a passenger train.
Commentary:
A Survivor with Alzheimer’s
Commentator Heather Dune Macadam is the co-author of the book Rena’s Promise:
A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz. It’s the autobiography of Holocaust
survivor Rena Gellissen. Even though the book was published in 1995,
Rena and Heather have remained close over the years.
And since Rena was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s,
they have become even closer, in a way.
Commentary:
Sam Todd's Disappearance - New Year 1984
A new mystery by Heather Dune Macadam,
a police detective investigating a murder finds clues to an
older case, the disappearance of a friend
who vanished many years earlier.
But the plot of the novel isn’t entirely fiction.
It’s based on Heather Dune Macadam’s own experience with a friend
who disappeared almost 20 years ago.
She’s found that basing a novel on people
she knows could complicate her real life.
(The Weeping Buddha is published by Akashic Books.)
Commentary:
An Adjunct Professor’s Life
Commentator Heather Dune Macadam is an adjunct professor, which means
that she teaches part-time at three different institutions of higher learning
but still has to get a summer job to make ends meet.
She’s just applied for a job at Home Depot. Macadam is the author
of the novel The Weeping Buddha, published by Akashic Books.
Heather Dune Macadam should be included in that rare category of literary mystery masters such as Lawrence Block, Craig Holden, and Giles Blunt, whose lyrical prose and beautifully developed characters have a great deal to say about the troubled world we live in and its legacy of violence.
Kaylie Jones, author of Celeste Ascending and A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries