Tante Eva Archives – Thomas Froese

It takes courage to get through this life

8 Comments / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / February 10, 2024 / childhood influences, Froese biography, Froese family history, Tante Eva / 4 minutes of reading

I know an African, a long-time family friend from Uganda, named Q. He was born in a house with a dirt floor in a closet normally storing things like suitcases. He told me while we drove to Entebbe’s airport. “Mother didn’t want to get other parts of the house dirty,” he said.

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Language lessons (of the heart) in Berlin

There are 60 stairs to Tante Eva’s third-floor apartment on Friedrichsruher. I reach them after walking from my hotel for 5 km, walking to see this city of my birth, flowers in hand. Earlier, Eva, 91 and living on her own, navigated these stairs, boarded, by herself, a bus, travelled to a