Below is a German poem I used to love as a teenager, with a professional translation and my own very loose one. ∼ Er ist’s ∼ Frühling läßt sein blaues BandWieder flattern durch die Lüfte;Süße, wohlbekannte DüfteStreifen ahnungsvoll das Land.Veilchen träumen schon,Wollen balde kommen.– Horch, von fern ein leiser Harfenton!Frühling, ja du bist’s!Dich […]
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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 […]
I just came home from a fabulous night at my 50+1 year reunion from Pikesville Senior High School. Many members of our class of ’71 have been on the reunion committee for the past two years, including myself. Over 80 classmates attended out of approximately 398 graduates. I even remembered our high […]
Much has been written about professional sports and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). For example, “The National Football League (NFL) in particular has long been blamed for glossing over serious injuries, especially brain injuries. A recent study linked football to dangerous head injuries. When scientists conducted autopsies on 202 deceased football players, 99% of […]
I ran the Charm City Reptile and Amphibian Rescue for 14 years (no longer in operation). Here is a story about an alligator rescue. A little boy was fishing in a creek in Prince George’s County, Maryland, with his grandfather when something grabbed his bait and ran with it. After […]
Originally written in 1965. Edited in 1983, 1990, 2019, 2022. The rear lights of the car disappeared. A second later even the faint growl of the motor was engulfed by the silence of the night. I was brutally dumped into a cold, dark, isolating solitude. The bright stars were staring […]
An article in the Wall Street Journal weekend edition of July 2-3, 2022, by Joseph Skibell titled “When the Prayers at School Aren’t Yours” triggered some memories of events that happened during my teen years. Growing up in Lubbock, Texas in the 1970s, Mr. Skibell writes: “There were only a […]
After giving life to a baby, the next thing is to give this child a name. This is a daunting task, a serious undertaking, thus scary. Allen (2), Bennett, Gary, Harvey, Jaye, Lou, Mickey, Nicki, Ray, Rickey, Roy, Sioux, Stanlee, Sydney, Toni. What do all these names have in common? […]
"Don't Judge Me" asks people to look past skin color, sexual orientation and other differences, and to instead take time to learn about each other.