Ideas are the vegetation of the mental world. Like individuals, they live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate. They droop in another.

–M. Dixon

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com. Walled-In is a story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.