Easter Inc.?

The White House is once again planning the Easter egg-rolling event that dates  to 1878, during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes, soon after Congress outlawed playing games on the Capitol grounds. 

But this year there’s a change afoot that may alter the complexion of the event from a quaint and family-friendly gathering that could draw tens of thousands of people to the White House lawn on April 21, 2025 — to something more akin to McEaster.

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Stop for Flashing Lights

IMG_3848When I tell people I want to live in a school bus after I retire, reactions run the gamut. But it’s OK. I’ve already driven a bus – the bus I was riding home from school one Spring day in 1972, in 9th Grade. I wasn’t supervised at all, but only watched by the laughing and licensed bus driver who gave me her seat so that I could drive my own bus down my own street. Continue reading “Stop for Flashing Lights”

Aunt Marcia – Family Vol. 4

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Flowers near Marcia’s bed.

My heart is breaking, but it’s not just for me. It is breaking for my mother’s brother Ken Viard, for Ken’s children Melissa and Carl (with whom, at some relatively minor physical distance, I grew up), for Melissa’s husband Jeff and Carl’s wife Agnes, and for all those who love Marcia Leete Worthen Viard, who, on Feb 22, 2017,  passed into what awaits us all. Continue reading “Aunt Marcia – Family Vol. 4”

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