Introducing Myself

Been a while since I wrote publicly, for a lot of reasons, everything from my late husband dying to returning to America, to kinda-sorta figuring out what I wanted to write at this time in my life, and maybe even why.

I am the author of Women in the Line of Fire: What You Should Know about Women in the Military, Seal Press, 2006, and if you’re the marketer who imposed that abomination of a title on me, I will never forget, but I forgave you a long time ago. I am also the writer-in-residence for the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, and my current work-in-progress is The Interrogation of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and while it’s a novel and we can supposedly do anything we want in fiction, I’m interested in both the historic record and the uses of historical mythology. So we’ll have a little fun with historiography, and also some passages I decided to axe. (I edit with a chainsaw as well as a scalpel, and mine is fully warmed up.) And yes, I got the goods. BTW, if you wonder if I perhaps have thoughts about how that man is relevant to Americans today… yes, I do.

I am also interested our future, as Americans living in a democracy, and also as humans. That interest took me to Antarctica last scientific season and will again this, beginning mid-October. I’ll be writing about that, too.