It came as no shock or surprise a while back when Connie Morella, the former Republican congresswoman from Montgomery County, endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president. Morella, like the two…
I guess I’ve always known how much I appreciate my grandmother Ethel, but it’s taken far too long for me to give her the credit due. There is a double…
Marylanders have every reason to be afraid of the coronavirus. They’re within spitting distance of the polluted Trump White House. Maryland stands at one corner of the congested triangle known…
Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated the 34th president on January 20, 1953. I was eleven and in the fifth grade. My school in Greer, SC, was 6 or 7 blocks…
There is a spreading notion, whether by evidentiary conviction or wishful thinking, that the presidency is the only block between Donald Trump and debtor’s prison. The presidency, of course, includes…
We lived in Highlands, NC, in the late eighties in a wonderful mountain home on three acres. Our yard backed up to the Nantahala National Forest. Ours was a small…
Another newly-elected delegate, a woman from Baltimore, tried to book a room at the Maryland Inn, then one of only two hotels in Annapolis and two cobblestone streets from the…
My dad was a good man, but he perfected the art of procrastination, he just could not carry projects to completion. In the south you can say something not so…
If you have engaged in conversation with me you may recall it did not take long before I brought up Highlands, NC. I was fortunate to have lived in Highlands…
Labor Day is traditionally the kick-off for the final two months of a presidential campaign, especially in a referendum year when an incumbent must either make the case for reelection…
