by Susan Mattern | Oct 7, 2018 | Human Connection
I was a guest at a wonderful wedding recently. A long-time Pakistani friend, the bride, got married to a young man of Irish Catholic heritage. The wedding took place here in Orange County. What a delightful blend of cultures. The bride wore a traditional Pakistani...
by Susan Mattern | | Father, German, German-American, Immigrant, Life, Statue of Liberty, World War II, WWII, Your Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free
My dad wasn’t an emotional person. He’d talk about how he came to the United States from Germany. He’d tell us about winning a tennis championship years later – the Missouri State championship – the week I was born. My mother wasn’t too...
