Industrious Kid
By Elliott Doomes, February 20, 2020 — Shoe shining wasn’t exactly a business. It was just something kids used to do to make money. We used to make our own little kits. All we needed was some wood with some … Continued
By Elliott Doomes, February 20, 2020 — Shoe shining wasn’t exactly a business. It was just something kids used to do to make money. We used to make our own little kits. All we needed was some wood with some … Continued
By Norman Cain, October 29, 2020 — This story is a result, it’s not completed, but it’s a result of a workshop that I was in that was conducted by an architect, and he wanted us to write about a … Continued
By Norman Cain, January 2, 2020 — Several weeks ago at Center in the Park I wrote a story about the hardships and the joy that people go through during the holiday period. Well, during this particular holiday period, I … Continued
By Sallie-Elizabeth Clayton, January 9, 2020 — I grew up in South Philadelphia, where I lived for most of my life until six years ago when I moved into a co-op here in Center City. This was the village that … Continued
By Eleanor Kazdan, October 29, 2020 — Growing up in the ’50s in an uptown neighborhood of Toronto, Halloween was something we looked forward to all year long. With the help of our mothers, we fashioned costumes of witches, cowboys, … Continued
By Liz Briggs, January 2, 2020 — After graduating from high school, I worked at a publishing company. Basically, I just continued on there only because I was assigned there during my senior year of high school in the cooperative … Continued
By Eleanor Kazdan, September 24, 2020 — I moved to Center City Philadelphia 15 years ago. In the suburbs, I rarely thought about people who were homeless and was not aware of anyone sleeping on the streets. Of course, I … Continued
By Ann von Dehsen, December 5, 2019 — A life time North Jersey resident, my father had a love/hate relationship with the New York Giants. My mother had mostly a hate relationship with the Giants because first, she hated football … Continued
By José Dominiguez, September 17, 2020 — When Beatriz, my daughter, was eight years old, I used to sing her infantile songs from a Mexican Spanish author known as Cri-Cri. Cri-Cri is the greatest songwriter in Mexico of infantile music. … Continued
By Mo McCooper, September 11, 2014 — Our grammar school (1st to 8th grades), was Roman Catholic and co-educational. Some of the girls played street baseball with us. A tennis ball and your fist or a broomstick were used. At the … Continued