Donna Vickroy: We’ll never know our family history if we don’t ask questions
Columnist Donna Vickroy finally learned the details of her father-in-law's near-death experience only after she kept asking him about his experiences in World War II.
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Schererville woman at 108: ‘Well, I guess I took good care of myself and didn’t know it’
Still sharp, still witty, still stylish, 108-year-old Edith Coleman straightens her blouse while pausing to reflect on a question she gets a lot these days. “What’s my secret?” she echoes....
Donna Vickroy: At 78, suburban ‘Butterfly Man’ still releasing thousands of monarchs and swallowtails
Bob Erlich, an Evergreen Park resident, has devoted his retirement years to promoting and caring for butterflies -- and teaching others to do the same.
Donna Vickroy: Best graduation gift’s knowing you have the power to learn and not being afraid to use it
Learning for learning's sake -- not for a grade or because you have to -- is the best lesson new graduates can take into the real world.
Donna Vickroy: Trade war illustrates the great divide between the haves and have nots, the givers and the takers
It's hard not to want to "hoard" shop out of fear that prices are going to skyrocket and shelves are going to be bare thanks to tariffs, columnist Donna Vickroy...
Donna Vickroy: I loved my mom’s love of music, but I’m still mortified by her belting out ‘After the Lovin’.
For as different as columnist Donna Vickroy was from her mom, one of the things they shared, she says, was a love of music.
Donna Vickroy: So many cats and dogs are looking for ‘forever’ homes — they need our help
There are so many wonderful cats and dogs hoping someone will adopt them from the many shelters and rescues across the suburbs.
Donna Vickroy: A little bit of chaos is life-affirming if it comes courtesy of the grandkids
You never stop learning -- or enjoying your life -- thanks to your grandkids, columnist Donna Vickroy says.
Donna Vickroy: Looking cancer in the eye: A conversation in the chemo lab
It’s Tuesday morning at the Duly Health and Care Center in Tinley Park. The parking lot is nearly full. I am accompanying my dear cousin Kathy Neuberg on her third...
Donna Vickroy: Mimi and Gucci find a new home after terminally ill owner gives his bonded dogs to Naperville shelter
There's a happy ending for Mimi and Gucci, the pair of bonded pitbull mixes whose terminally ill owner gave them to the Naperville Area Humane Society because he could no...