Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army came upon Auschwitz and its various camps and subcamps.   What they found was terrible. Afraid of anyon...

  Who Am I? I was interviewed recently, and the interviewer asked a question I’ve never been asked by an interviewer. He asked me who I am. ...

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!  My parents loved New Year’s Eve. They loved dressing up in their fancy clothes. For weeks, my mom would search the departm...

 New Year’s Resolutions I don’t know about you, but I’ve been making Resolutions for most of my life. I don’t remember when I started making...

CHRISTMAS TREES! I was talking to a friend yesterday about putting up Christmas decorations.  She was complaining about the time involved in...

The Death of the Polish Captain When I was a little kid back in the 1950s, we lived in an apartment building east of Humboldt Park. The buil...

   STAY HOME! Part 2 A couple weeks ago, I told you about the rotten cruise we had at the beginning of this November.  I told you about the ...