Szcz The Day Dinner Event 2018
Matt and I are both humbled and honored by the continued overwhelming support our community so graciously blessed us with in order to make the...
Pint Night Recap
My stomach leapt into my chest when we pulled up outside the brewery. After such a good turn out last year, you’d think I wouldn’t be nervous...
Szczing Cancer
I knew something was wrong when he emerged from the other end of the concourse, not smiling. I waited for him outside the door of the family room...
Our Snow Day with Don Corleone
I woke up early Thursday morning to the beating of wind gusts against our bedroom window. Before we went to sleep, the last we heard from the...
Bring It On
I woke up this morning the same as any other. The steam from the shower slipped slowly beneath the bathroom door in a warm cloud over the bed,...
Szcz The Day: The Matthew Szczur Foundation Launches
“You can only do so much in baseball—throw the ball so far, hit the ball so hard. To be able to make a difference in not only your life, but in...
A Golden State of Mind
I stood on a blanket of grainy sand on the edge of a cliff before a vast gray horizon and slowly shut my eyes. For the first time in three weeks,...
A Farewell to Chicago, Hello San Diego
I heard stories after the Cubs won the World Series. Stories before we even left Chicago for the off-season. Magical stories of families,...
Renegades
“Maybe you should have picked another song,” I said to him. We were in our living room on North Halsted Street, surrounded by the glass walls...
From Us to You, Thank You, Thank You
They remind me in so many ways of each other. I often wonder how two little girls on two opposite sides of the world have so much in common. I...