Roses
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A Rose Diary August 29, 2024
April 12, 2024I live on a mountain and am surrounded by mountains and last year I planted five rosebushes. Last year I dug five holes and it took a few days because the ground is hard where I live and it is full of bluestone and other rocks. In the o...
Sabrina Carpenter’s Funny, Feisty “Short n’ Sweet” August 29, 2024
As incubators of pop stardom go, the Disney corporation has, rather unexpectedly, outlasted around two decades of dramatic shifts in the music industry. While “The Mickey Mouse Club”—a show that helped prepare pop singers such as Britney Spears, Just...
The Faith of Djokovic August 12, 2024
No bureaucrat at the IOC was going to steal this performance from Novak Djokovic. Teary-eyed, drenched in sweat, grateful, sprawled out on the clay, Djokovic rose from the Philippe-Chatrier Court at the Paris Olympics and made the sign of the cross. ...
Pete Rose and the Legacy of Cincinnati Baseball August 09, 2024
In 1993, when I was nine years old, I attended a youth baseball camp at Cincinnati’s Xavier University. I was one of a handful of Black players at the camp, held by an overwhelmingly white, Catholic institution, and many of my fellow-campers were sur...
