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...
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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...
Donna Vickroy: In a quest to visit the world’s most beautiful gardens, we remember to ‘take only photographs’ as souvenirs
When your hobby is collecting "gardens," as in viewing as many of the world's greatest as you can, the only part you get to keep are the memories and photographs.
Donna Vickroy: Man with terminal cancer hopes Naperville animal shelter can find someone who will adopt his beloved dogs together
Des Plaines man dying of cancer brings his two beloved dogs to the Naperville Area Humane Society in the hope that someone will adopt both so they stay together.
Donna Vickroy: As we deal with new chaos, take a page from COVID and practice the four Cs
These are tough times for empaths. As we watch government service agencies get gutted, as we watch people lose their jobs, as we watch our beautiful national parks struggle to...
Donna Vickroy: Plan now for your bountiful garden later
Yes, there’s light at the end of this winter. But before you reach for the gardening gloves, or take a hoe out of the shed, or start filling your cart...
Donna Vickroy: Did you hear the one about the Lockport brewery that packs the house for live storytelling?
Since the beginning of time, the story has been the conduit of relationship, the bridge across culture, proof of our humanity, and, when deftly told, a gift for the ages.
Donna Vickroy: Old age can be hell when all you want is calm, order, health and friends
This is how I expected retirement to be: A nice stroll into a calm, slow, nonthreatening way of life as we put aside the chaos of the working world. Au...
Donna Vickroy: Looking for moments of zen amid the national chaos the only way to stay sane
It didn’t take long to realize the new leadership’s manic attack on the status quo was by design. It also didn’t take long to realize the “shock and awe” was...
Sheila Murphy: Cook County’s first female presiding judge, champion for restorative justice
Sheila Murphy was a Cook County public defender, a private criminal defense attorney and Cook County’s first female presiding judge.