Our Minds, Our Bodies, Our Hearts
As soon as I could read, I fell in love with books. Reading took me out of the life I was living. No longer was I an isolated girl in a small military town on the coast of North Carolina….Continue Reading →
Recent Books by Ellen Herbert
THE LAST GOVERMENT GIRL
Winner of the Maryland Writer's Association 2014 Novel Award
Published by Apprentice House
On Sale at Amazon
FALLING WOMEN & OTHER STORIES
Published by Shelfstealers
On Sale at Amazon | more
Lessons from My Left Foot
Bunions and hammer toes: if you do not know what they are, count your blessings. Most people with these painful conditions blame their shoes. Women blame wearing high heels or other ill-fitting shoes, but these conditions are often hereditary. My…Continue Reading →
To Ukraine with Love
In the summer of ’09, my husband John and I took a train from Krakow, Poland to Lviv, Ukraine. When we arrived at the border between Poland and Ukraine, we had to get off the train in the Polish city…Continue Reading →
A Country Brave Enough to Face its Terrible Past
On previous trips to Paris, I often passed a plaque outside elementary schools. Several times I noticed flowers left below this plaque. Even with my high school French, I understood the plaque had to do with children deported during the…Continue Reading →
Paris is Occupied Again!
Paris is always the answer, so said Audrey Hepburn. How true this has been in my own life. In the summer of ’16, when I was fogged over with grief after my husband’s death, I came to Paris. Here I…Continue Reading →
Don’t Waste a Moment of Your Antibodies: Live Fully!
We counted down 14 days after our second Moderna shot. According to the CDC, after 14 days we would possess maximum antibodies to fight the virus. This immunity, which we have come to call our GET OUT OF JAIL FREE…Continue Reading →
The Vaccination Hunt: a Matter of Life or Death
Since March 2020 when the pandemic hit, Dan and I have quarantined. We get all our groceries delivered. God bless Instacart and Peapod! We have our prescriptions mailed to us. Amazon has delivered everything from batteries for our car key…Continue Reading →
We Miss the World
Even before our wonderful Spanish trip ended, Dan and I talked of our next journey. Vienna, Austria on the ice blue Danube called to us. We imagined ourselves off the Ringstrasse in a sunny café sipping frothy Viennese coffees, sharing…Continue Reading →