Pauline Kok

Freedom is a precious thing – an expensive, never valued enough commodity. Once lost, the effort to win it back consumed my soul. After...

Happy New Year to all my followers; and all those hoping for that second book—a book in which I would I continue my story and share what...

Christmas is only a few days away. Preparations for that celebration are everywhere: hurried people trying to find and buy their...

After a presentation I make an effort to answer as many questions as I can. When there is no limit to time my answers and explanations...

Time has passed; and the presentation I gave for the Women’s Club of Ontario has also passed. It was quite an experience. It started...

I was present the day the retired Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire arrived to accept an Award presented to him by Our Lady of Lourdes...

On Monday I meet Romeo Dallaire. He is the retired Lieutenant General who in 1994 witnessed the killing of almost 800,000 people in...

Yesterday brought the most amazing surprise. It came to me in the form of an email. I looked at it for a long time before I could...

I was asked to describe my personality. It seemed to be important to the person “evaluating” me after she read my book The Remains of...

Travelling to Holland was not a problem, but seeing Emma-M was difficult. The last time I saw her was in 2002 when it was she who...

Where did my father go in the years after he left Indonesia? I searched for him within our family and saw him try to be a father. I...

When you reach a certain age, you are often looking back more over the past years. Sometimes I sit down, often outside, and disappear in...

It is not easy to open a door, which has been closed for many, many years. I will have to find the courage to do this and although I...

Since Japan needed commodities, which they did not have them self, they had to look somewhere else. They tried to trade and buy from...

There is enough written and known about W.W. II and the brutality of Hitler and his cohorts. That Japan was a force just as brutal and...

It has been a long time, since I wrote another post. I have been quite busy with presentations in High Schools, Book Clubs, Rotary and...

Hello friends, family and followers of ‘the Remains of War, After a long silence and many unfortunate happenings I finally am able to...