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Grandma's braids

By A.C. Cargill Memories from our childhood can last a lifetime. Mine was of Grandma’s braids. And on this warm summer day, that memory came back most vividly, for that was when I had first seen them. Grandma was half Irish and half American Indian. Which tribe was never known. […]

Grandma’s Braids

We haven't come very far, civil rights

We haven’t come so very farIn keeping Blacks on equal parAnd we are poorer for it. Perhaps it would be if we hadThings wouldn’t be so very badBecause of pent up emotion. They did not ask to come hereWhile subjected to awful fearResulting in others’ profit. Wronging them in every mannerWe […]

We Haven’t Come Very Far

snapping turtle

The job I was working occasionally for a friend of mine who did wildlife relocation. He called me one day and said that he had gotten an emergency call. He was way out in Howard County and I was much closer. The manager of an apartment complex in Baltimore County […]

Snapping Turtle Tied to a Tree

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Creative shoes

Little Girl Lament “But Mommy, I love these shoes,” six-year-old Laura cried as I was getting ready to throw them out. “But Sweetie, they’re too small for you now. It will make your toes scrunchy and hurt you.” With giant tears rolling down her cheeks, she sat on the porch […]

Creative Shoes

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Beloved mother

By Shoshana Harris I invite you to picture this: you lived through the great depression. You were an excellent student, graduating as salutatorian from high school. But hopes of going on to medical school were not to be realized, so instead you settled on becoming a secretary. You married at […]

Dedicated to the Memory of Hortense Brooks, Beloved Mother

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Chocolate bar

Oh, How I Love Thee What is it about chocolate that makes me salivate? Is it the creamy texture, the sweetness, the endorphins it produces? Chocolate has been a part of my life since I was a little girl. In elementary school, we enjoyed Hershey bars (plain and almond) and […]

I Love Chocolate

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Have and have-nots on Wall Street.

Bad habits can become afflictionsLet’s add to the list two additionsMoney and power can be addictions. If one sells drugs, one goes to jailThese guys steal, get out on bailThey do bad but still prevail. They do not die but fade awayParachutes carry them through the frayBut what about me, […]

The Haves and Have-Nots

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California kingsnake and note from a Boy Scout

I ran the Charm City Reptile and Amphibian Rescue for 14 years (no longer in operation). Here is a story about one of the rescues. We had several snakes, as we always do, in the rescue. A young boy scout named Matt called me and told me he wanted to […]

Boy Scout Rents Snake

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A lit menorah from a Chanukkah to remember.

It is Thursday evening, December 22, 2022. The fifth night of Chanukkah.  A few days earlier, our son had suggested that we sponsor a Chanukkah family get-together in our condo. My husband’s physical condition does not permit us to join our family at another location. “You will not have to […]

A Chanukkah to Remember 

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