Tucked away in a basement room that used to be a wine cellar in our house’s headier days, stands a proud Zenith TV. An ode to simpler times, when everyone gathered around the same screen and made their program choices from three standard channels, the wooden console acts as a warm memory conduit all on [...]
For Christmas this year, my daughter Molly gave me three quarts of homemade ice cream. I shared, of course, teeny, tiny little dishes for my Christmas Eve guests. "What flavor would you like?" I asked each one, and then scooped that precious ice cream with a little teaspoon and served it in the smallest glass [...]
My sisters-in-law Sharon and Donna have become both the keepers and the sharers of Biskupic family history. So, we were touched but not surprised last week to receive an unsolicited package from Sharon that contained a Toni Kukoc jersey we once gave my father-in-law for Christmas. And I was likewise touched but not surprised to [...]
We all jumped out of our chairs yesterday afternoon when Ivan Rakitic nailed the final penalty kick to send Croatia past Denmark in the knock out round of the World Cup yesterday. But, really, only one of us is a super fan. Wearing her lucky dress, with her legs still a little charred from the afternoon [...]
The dedication alone would have made Vinko the Achiever a fitting legacy for its subject, its author and its artist, a trio of talented dreamers. "May you be graced with a vivid imagination as a building block for your life's goals," it reads. "May you come to have relationships with inspirational people and others who serve [...]