Hendrika de Vries, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/hendrikadevries/ Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:55:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 A New Year’s Eve Miracle: Excerpt https://booksbywomen.org/a-new-years-eve-miracle-excerpt/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-new-years-eve-miracle-excerpt/#respond Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:55:19 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=33862 May the New Year bring the “miracle” you wish for. A New Year’s Eve Miracle. We walked with deliberate steps.   Placed our feet with care on the slippery surface of the ice-covered sidewalks and bridges of our Nazi-occupied town. Held on to each other tight,  so not to slip and fall into the dark canal,  […]

The post A New Year’s Eve Miracle: Excerpt appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/a-new-years-eve-miracle-excerpt/feed/ 0 33862 I Can’t Breathe… https://booksbywomen.org/i-cant-breathe/ https://booksbywomen.org/i-cant-breathe/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2020 09:20:24 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=31459 Hendrika de Vries is the author of When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew: a memoir about her childhood in Nazi-occupied WWII Amsterdam. “I can’t breathe…” “I can’t breathe” whispered George Floyd as a white man in authority put his knee on his neck and crushed him to death. “I can’t breathe” […]

The post I Can’t Breathe… appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/i-cant-breathe/feed/ 1 31459 From May 1945 to COVID-19: Reflections https://booksbywomen.org/from-may1945-to-covid-19-reflections/ https://booksbywomen.org/from-may1945-to-covid-19-reflections/#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:26:01 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30680 By Hendrika de Vries I have found one of the lovely surprises about growing old if you are lucky, is that you become part of a web of friends, colleagues and family members who span the planet. Over the years they stretch your mind and enrich your life by their diverse cultural lifestyles, beliefs and rituals, and […]

The post From May 1945 to COVID-19: Reflections appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/from-may1945-to-covid-19-reflections/feed/ 0 30680 Sharing Our Stories—Shining a Light https://booksbywomen.org/sharing-our-stories-shining-a-light/ https://booksbywomen.org/sharing-our-stories-shining-a-light/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:06:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=27712 Hendrika de Vries:  When A Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew… From the time that I was a little girl curled up on my father’s lap, enchanted by his bedtime stories of fairy-tale heroes and heroines, and mythic far-away places where magical gods and goddesses could morph into animal shapes at […]

The post Sharing Our Stories—Shining a Light appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/sharing-our-stories-shining-a-light/feed/ 0 27712