Buy NOW! Growing up in Chicago , I was used to the city dumping gallons of green dye in the Chicago River to celebrate St. Pat’s Day,...

1978 was my freshman year at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, IL. I’ll admit I was pretty straight-laced, so I would have...

Buy NOW! Winter is most definitely the time to think about Mary Donahue, who, at the age of 15, is heading into the blizzard winter of...

Buy NOW! Mary Donahue, the 15-year-old protagonist of my novel, WINTER LIGHT, which takes place in 1978-79 Chicago, listens to a lot of...

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Buy NOW! Mary Donahue of WINTER LIGHT was 14 during the 1976 Winter Olympics in Montreal. Already too cool for school and generally...

Buy NOW! Now that it’s summer, I was thinking about my childhood summers in the 1970s back in Chicago. What the season meant: hot, humid...

by Nikki Patin Often how we come to experience other people’s lives is not by learning facts about them, but by listening to how they...