My two grandmothers, my mother’s mother Ruth Barton Calderwood Hill Janson, and my father’s mother, Hazel Winnifred Sanders Redd had very little in common. The one thing that connects them in my mind is the joy I felt in coming downstairs to either of them with her back to me making French toast or pancakes. […]
September 17, 2022
Long-term, this proposal aims to ally three emergent urban agriculture operations in the Old York Road-Cheltenham-Wyncote corridor and model cooperation among educators of school age students and the public about growing food. I. We aim to teach 6th to 12th grade students to grow food, thereby expanding their career opportunities and improving their economic self-reliance), […]
September 15, 2022
Chronological List of, Independence Dates for Africa 🇱🇾Libya (Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) 24 December 1951 from Britain 🇸🇩Sudan, Democratic Republic 1 January 1956 from Britain/Egypt 🇲🇦Morocco, Kingdom of, 2 March 1956 from France 🇹🇳Tunisia, Republic of, 20 March 1956 from France 🇬🇭Ghana, Republic of, 6 March 1957 from Britain 🇬🇳Guinea, Republic of, 2 October […]
September 14, 2022
A person born before the digital age, my father read the newspaper every day. Later in life, he paid particularly close attention to the obituaries. As more and more people he had known died, he would report these to me. I remember thinking, “Why is he telling me this?” I once heard a parable in […]
September 13, 2022
There was a “house of many children” on Coal Street on the Southside of Bethlehem (where my first husband stayed for years after I moved on.) That’s what my next door neighbor, Adele, called it, with irritation in her voice at their noise, at their hungry eyes peering over her fence. Adele and her husband […]
September 18, 2022
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