It’s a good time to plant megawatt bulbs
Even if you don’t grow daffodils, the shine of their cheerful yellow blossoms may inspire you to include bulbs in your own garden. And you can plant daffodils — just not until fall. (Autumn is the time to plant the bulbs you see blooming now.) However, if you’re inspired and the weather is pleasant, you can plant certain bulbs now — those that gleam in summer and fall. The... READ MORE
Uptown Gallery showcases home-grown art
A few weeks ago, Uptown Gallery artist David Robatin was leafing through a folder of old articles and scrapbooks he found in the storage area when he came across a photo of two longtime members, Solange Brown and Faye Henderson. The two artists, now in their 70s, happened to be there that evening, so they reminisced about the changes they had seen over the 32 years since the Gallery... READ MORE
Books revisit Civil War after 160 years
The Bibliophile The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, 160 years ago at Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. One week later the first fatalities occurred in Baltimore, Maryland. We are still reeling from its causes and aftereffects these many generations hence. These recent books focus our attention on the war and Lincoln’s fight against slavery. A Short... READ MORE
When the viral coast is clear, I plan to…
As vaccinations become more common, and hope sprouts, your faithful correspondent got seized by an idea. Since “normal” seems increasingly possible fairly soon, what is the first thing a newly vaccinated senior citizen plans to do when the viral coast is clear? I am no pollster, but I am an accomplished e-mailer. So, I clicked the question out to about 40 of my closest pals —... READ MORE
D.C.’s queen of Sunday jazz for 36 years
A recent radio show on WPFW began with a quote from Shakespeare’s Henry V, as the love-struck king woos his future wife. Then the great tenor sax player Ben Webster soloed with strings on “Come Rain or Come Shine,” the lyrics of which begin: “I’m gonna love you like nobody’s loved you.” All that amour aired on the aptly named “A Sunday Kind of Love,” the weekly noon to... READ MORE
Speak out to make a difference
In the 1990s, Sarah Harris was raising three children in Fairfax County when her husband was diagnosed (at age 53) with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. In the five years he lived with Alzheimer’s, he lost the ability to hold conversations or complete small tasks, like turning off the television. Harris’ experience inspired her to take action. Today, she is an Alzheimer’s... READ MORE
Appreciating Maryland’s heritage
How has nature nurtured you during the pandemic? That’s the question Patapsco Heritage Greenway Inc. — the conservation group that oversees the Patapsco Valley Heritage Area — is asking Marylanders to respond to this month in the form of poems, essays, drawings or even songs. Based in Ellicott City, the nonprofit Patapsco Heritage Greenway (PHG) works to preserve and protect the ... READ MORE
Divide perennials to expand your garden
With political polarization dominating the news, maybe you’d like to know how division can be a positive thing — when it comes to perennials, that is. Why divide perennials, those plants that return each year? Many perennials left undisturbed for more than three years become overcrowded, unsightly and needy. The center of the clump becomes either hollow or weak, and the flowers might ... READ MORE
During pandemic, she wrote three books
At a certain point in life, we want to finish the story. That was Dr. Daryl Cumber Dance’s thought. Upon retirement from a career as a professor of English, Dance had been asked to send her papers to her alma mater, the University of Virginia. As she went through her extensive collection of writing, Dance found projects unfinished and things unsaid. She realized she didn’t want... READ MORE
A hopeless romantic, mired in past tech
I was e-mailing with a former colleague the other day. Oh, that rancid coffee in the common pot. Ah, the rotten pay. Golly, all those brown hairs that have turned white, or disappeared. And wow, remember those nuts who used to call? Why, today, the switchboard would never put them through, I declared. My former colleague roasted me. “You are showing your age, Bob,” he said.... READ MORE
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