Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

  When my father was dying of liver cancer, the doctors popped him full of morphine, enough morphine -- they thought -- to keep him d...

Last year, I posted the following. I wanted to thank all my generations and generations of Polish ancestors who simply kept going despite a...

Andy Golebiowski sent me an article from the Am Pol Eagle entitled "WWII Survivors, Families Commemorate All Souls Day." Here...

A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog about language and loss . It was inspired by a conversation I have been having with Christina Sananto...

My friend the writer Christina Sanantonio and I have been having a conversation about writing about loss. It’s a conversation fueled in pa...

73 years ago on September 1. 1939, the Germans invaded Poland. Their blitzkrieg, their lightning war, came from the air and the sea and th...

I don't often recommend websites, but I want to share two with you. The first is We Were Children . I recently heard from Alexandra Gib...