Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

Recently, SGI Quarterly , a Buddhist magazine devoted to Peace, Culture, and Education, asked me to write a piece about my mom and dad and w...

I recently heard from my friend Halina Koralewski, a Polish-American interested in making sure Americans know about Polish and Polish-Americ...

I gave a lecture recently at Benedictine Academy , a Catholic girls’ school, in Elizabeth , New Jersey .   I talked about my parents there ...

  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...