I love pizza — but no longer eat cheese. So, in recent years, I began to think of pizza as more of a memory than a meal.
My fifth birthday was the stuff pizza dreams are made of, at least to a kid living in New York City’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s. Judy, my mom’s artsy friend who ran a day care out of her apartment on St. Read More...
Two men were found shot and wounded Friday afternoon in Southeast Washington, D.C. police said.
The men were found about 4:30 p.m. in the 800 block of Southern Avenue, said Officer Hugh Carew, a police spokesman.
He said they were taken to hospitals with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening.
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The declaration came emphatically, out of nowhere — dropped between sudsing his hair and rinsing out the shampoo with a plastic yellow duck full of water. "I'm not black," my then 4-year-old son announced, while playing with his superhero figurines in the tub.
I assured him that not only was he black, because his daddy is black, but that he was also Chinese, like me. He wrinkled his nose and shook his head at this reality check. Read More...
