Kathy Hendricks Kathy is the fifth of six children in a family rooted in the history and geographical beauty of Colorado. She ventured outward in college and, later, as an elementary school teacher, religious educator, pastoral minister, author, spiritual director, and public speaker. Married for forty-five years to her husband, Ron, she is mother to three children – Eric, Anna, and Jenny, who died at the age of a year – and “Nana” to Antonia, River Grace, and Clay. While retired from her full-time position as a national religion consultant, she continues to write, edit, and revel in the gift of family and the beauty of the Rocky Mountains.
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Kathy Hendricks
Kathy is the fifth of six children in a family rooted in the history and geographical beauty of Colorado. She ventured outward in college and, later, as an elementary school teacher, religious educator, pastoral minister, author, spiritual director, and public speaker. Married for forty-five years she and her husband are parents of three children ( one of whom died in infancy) and doting grandparents of three. While retired from her full-time position as a national religion consultant, she continues to write, edit, and revel in the gift of family and the beauty of the Rocky Mountains.
Barbara Anne Radtke
Barbara’s worldview has been shaped by place, family, career, and travel. She has always called somewhere in the northeast corridor of the U.S. home, but has traveled in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. Raised in a family of five children, she engages with large extended family who live throughout the U.S. She is a widow after 28 years of marriage and retired after a career in administration and teaching in higher education.
Several decades after the end of the Viet Nam war, we still have much to learn about those whose lives were so deeply affected by it. Kristen Hannah’s historical novel, The Women, tells about the service of nurses during combat and the trauma that followed them when they returned home. Few were acknowledged and way too many suffered the same fate as active-duty military who were shamefully treated with harassment and disdain. It is a sobering read about a time in our history that is far from being reconciled or understood.
“Six Triple Eight” is the dramatization of the only corp of women of color who served in Europe during World War II. Their mission was to sort and deliver mail that had been stockpiled for months. At the end of the film there is footage of the people depicted and a charming interview with a woman, a centenarian, who lived long enough to see Tyler Perry’s first cut of the film. It’s now streaming on Netflix.