Now that I am a seasoned parent of teenagers, I’m going back to the old school way that my dad made sure I made it home by curfew: an alarm clock. Before the days of technologically tracking your child, he would set an alarm clock for my curfew – and this is key, AFTER I […]

In the winter of 1987, Lisa Niemi quietly packed a small bag, left a note on the kitchen counter, and walked out of the home she shared with Patrick Swayze. Their marriage, once strong and steady, had started to crack under the weight of Hollywood fame, exhausting work schedules, and the emotional toll of Patrick’s […]

Barbara Ledermann was born on September 4, 1925, as the first daughter of Ilse and Franz Ledermann in Berlin, Germany. She had a younger sister, Sanne, to whom she was very close. In 1933, to escape the Nazis, Barbara and her family moved to the Netherlands. There, she quickly became close friends with her neighbor, […]