Fourteen years ago, Rev. David Bahr the pastor of Archwood United Church of Christ and his congregation started a food drive with an unusual twist during the annual Archwood Avenue Garage Sale. Reverend Dave with the help of Fire Company #20 entered the steeple of his church high above the treetops on Archwood Avenue vowing […]
Brooklyn Centre held its first Fresh Stop last Thursday at Art House. The tomatoes at the West Side Market last week smelled freshpicked and ripe. Memorial Day is behind us. Planting flowers and vegetables is always associated with this holiday because I spent hours with my parents and extended family planting an acre of vegetables that fed […]
A friend just sent me this video called A compilation of women in art click here to watch it. It is amazing! As I watched it, I wondered about the creative mind that had this idea and how was the video crafted so that each woman’s face transforms into the next seamlessly.. Art continues to reach new heights and […]
Each year one of our neighbors, Rick Nicholson, gathers a group of us from the neighborhood together at a small burial ground to commemorate Memorial Day. Amid the hubbub of all of the weekend activities we gather together in this small unobtrusive graveyard surrounded by war veterans dating back as far as the Revoltionary […]
When I was a kid there was this song called “High Hopes”. We sang it in choir; we played it in band. I think it was a Frank Sinatra song. Anyway, I think a bunch of my neighbors and me felt like that little ant on Saturday. We got […]
I had to chuckle when I read about the kids in Gahanna placing a Big Boy likeness on the roof of their school. When reading about the forklift and manpower needed to rescue Big Boy from his perch and return him to his rightful place, I couldn’t help but wonder how those kids got him […]
Yesterday Christine came by for a cup of coffee, and this is how the conversation started. “I thought my pharmacy bag seemed awfully light when I picked it up.” Over the years, she and I have formed this little charade on how we handle these conversations about Medicaid. It’s kind of like a comedian and […]
My first post in over a month appears not on this blog, but here.
I guess pushing a broom at Broadway Clean Sweep cleared those cobwebs from mind and cleared the way for me to start writing on this space again. You see it hasn’t been a matter of not having anything to write about but […]