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’Ljubavi’: On the Croatian word for love

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, May 17, 2023

My favorite word is ljubavi. Pronounced “loo-buh-vee,” ljubavi is the Croatian word for love and what my grandparents have always called me and my sister Ella. My Grandma and Grandpa immigrated to the United States in 1970 from the city of Rijeka, Croatia, and have lived down the street from me nearly my whole life. I

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Dear Grandpa

Thomas Diehl | Friday, February 21, 2020

Dear Grandpa, Somehow, some way, you managed to live through 19 years of my life. You got to watch me grow up. You got to watch me graduate from high school. You got to watch me become a Domer. Never in a million years did I think that all of this possible. Yet, there I

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The planes at JFK

Lauren Fox | Monday, September 25, 2017

In the 1970s, my grandfather would go to John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport to film the planes, and my father would go with him to make a small fortune. The planes mesmerized my grandfather. He would pull off to the side of the highway near JFK, take out a lawn chair and spend two hours

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Treasure your heroes

Alaina Anderson | Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Most people have someone they look up to and call a hero. I am lucky to have two heroes, my loving grandparents who I call my Nonna and Nonno, which means Grandma and Grandpa in Italian. My Nonno is 86 years old, has survived a stroke, a heart attack and triple bypass surgery. As a