As the fastest kid in my grade school class, I had already discovered the thrill of speed—the wind cutting across my face, the sound of my heart… Read more “TONI WITH AN “i””
Category: Bisia & Isham
Memoir
MEET THE AUTHOR
Over her 40 years of teaching, Madame Elzbieta Reavis was one of the most beloved teachers at two Sacred Heart Academies in St. Louis: City House (1955-1968)… Read more “MEET THE AUTHOR”
MEMORIAL DAY 2023 – THE LETTER HOME
June 11, 1944 Camp Livingston, Louisiana Dearest (Mother), I have just returned from Bing Crosby’s new show Going My Way. It was splendid, a very sweet story… Read more “MEMORIAL DAY 2023 – THE LETTER HOME”
BOOK INTERVIEW ON ST. LOUIS RADIO
On December 27th, I was a guest on the Jennifer & Wendy Show on KTRS radio, 550 AM, in St. Louis, my hometown. I appeared to discuss… Read more “BOOK INTERVIEW ON ST. LOUIS RADIO”
BISIA & ISHAM: The Countess & The P.O.W.
On Valentine’s Day 1945, two soldiers met in a small café in Lublin, Poland, both caught in the tragic and uncertain currents of a world at war. 23-year-old Countess Elzbieta (Bisia) Krasicka was a lieutenant in the Polish Home Army, fighting for her nation’s doomed freedom. 33-year-old Isham Reavis was lieutenant in the U.S. Army, an escaped prisoner of war, searching for an American mission. Neither spoke the other’s language. Yet 11 days later they married, beginning a life of 64 years together. These are the tales that led to their meeting in the Artists Café in Lublin, and Bisia’s subsequent escape from Soviet-occupied Poland as she sought to reunite with the husband she barely knew./
“YOU JUST DO.”
Almost since the onset of The Running Boom of the 1970s, the sport has espoused the Just Do It lifestyle, a phrase famously coined by co-founder of… Read more ““YOU JUST DO.””
MY NEW BOOK NOW AVAILABLE
My new book about the meeting and marriage of my parents in war-torn Poland during the dying days of World War II is now out and available.… Read more “MY NEW BOOK NOW AVAILABLE”
BOOK LAUNCH
It’s been years in the writing, but finally it’s ready for publication. This is the story of how my parents met and married during World War II… Read more “BOOK LAUNCH”
HAPPY FATHERS DAY 2020
Today is Father’s Day 2020. For those whose father is still with them, it is a time to be thankful. For those whose dads have passed, it… Read more “HAPPY FATHERS DAY 2020”
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY: GUN RUNNER
In honor of Mother’s Day 2020, here’s a chapter on Mom’s service in the Polish Home Army during World War II. Bisia was officially sworn into the… Read more “HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY: GUN RUNNER”