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Originally Written June 2, 2015 at 11:11PM Around 3:30 this afternoon, my foster cat of the past six months, Bollo, died with my hand...

Thoughts on Seeing Two Old Dogs in the park.... I was jogging in Tookany Creek Park a little bit ago, and saw this man walking these two...

(Photo Courtesy of https://archives.delaware.gov/historical-markers-map/thomas-garrett-underground-railroad-stationmaster/) Our Story...

I am not a native born Philadelphian, but one of the many New Yorkers who have moved to the city, though I do like to claim credit for...

I chose Philadelphia as my home 20 years ago, but I will always be a New Yorker. To a NYer, every city is always cheaper and cleaner, and...

A dear friend, Due, took me to dinner tonight for my birthday. We had a lovely meal at Valley Green Inn, and as I was driving slowly...

I began my recent creative journey, when I fell in with a group of extremely talented authors and poets, and their "open mics." As I...

I was blown away last year, when I took a DNA test, which revealed that I am a composite of African, Native American, Iberian, Jewish,...

This is a tale of two Madisons, men of striking similarities and stark differences; contained in their lives is the complexity,...

I wrote this in April of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic and our "sheltering in place" mandate, and, tragically, we are still...

This is a personal entry, because they won’t all be deeply researched historical posts. I was heading out for a run in the park, away...

Booker T. Washington, first Principal and founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which has since become Tuskegee...

By Thomas Nast for Harper's Illustrated Weekly. Today is the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the treasonous...

Originally Written 3 March 2016 Today, I brought this GE coffeemaker to the recycle dumpster and threw it in. I hadn’t used it in more...

Originally Written 17 November 2016 So, I was talking to a co-worker (I won't call her out here, but she can comment if she wants) today,...

I just returned from a glorious two hours of yoga at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I have been attending classes there on and off for 4...