Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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...

I got an email from a friend after my last post. He wanted to know how my father celebrated May 3rd, Polish Constitution Day . Here's ...

In the 50s, when I was a child growing up around Humboldt Park in Chicago, the biggest non-religious holiday was not Halloween or the 4 of J...

I posted a piece recently on this blog about Growing Up Polish American . One of the things I talked about was a series of photos I had once...