True courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doesn’t that look like an example of true courage? It happens every spring. www.walled-in-berlin.com

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 my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.