The age of the children was only four. A group of them came running and laughing out the door. They jumped and skipped upon the ground And checked out everything around. They stopped to look at all the trees And dodged and darted away from bees. They looked up at different birds on high And […]
Author Archives: Peggy Tarr
Posted inPublic Square
A Curt’s Café Memoir
By Peggy Tarr It is March, Women’s History Month, a month to honor women for their accomplishments and contributions to history, culture, society, and support of each other. It is a time to love, honor, and show respect for women and have compassion for their challenges. About a week ago, I walked down Central Street […]
Posted inPublic Square
Peggy Tarr: Gumption
It is March, Women’s History Month, a month to honor and show respect for women and their accomplishments and have compassion for their challenges. In 2002, a book was published entitled, “That Takes Ovaries: Females and Their Brazen Acts.” The book is a collection of individually written stories by women that encounter situations in which […]
Posted inPublic Square
Peggy Tarr: ‘To Be or Not to Be’
I watched a PBS broadcast entitled “American Experience: Voice of Freedom” on Feb. 15, which was a biography of the late “Negro” contralto Marian Anderson (1897-1993) with commentators. Ms. Anderson suffered many Jim Crow* experiences during her career in the U.S.A. “To be or not to be; that is the question.” (from “Hamlet” by William […]
Posted inPublic Square, Uncategorized
Then and Now
I went outside very early one morning to pick up a newspaper and heard a bird singing. I stood there alone quite some time, listening to its song and trying to see it. At first, I thought its melody was repeated over and over again, but then I realized that sometimes it added a note […]
Posted inAll Recent Posts, Uncategorized
A Plethora of Salt and Pepper Shakers
I went with a friend to the house of her friend Joyce Chapman Savage. We entered through the kitchen. Per usual, I did not pay much attention to the contents of the kitchen as we passed through it to the living room. My friend introduced me to her Ms. Savage, and I was invited to […]
Posted inAll Recent Posts, Uncategorized
Peggy Tarr: A Coffee Miracle
March 25. I wanted some coffee and decided to go to a nearby Starbucks to get some. I noticed a long line of cars in the drive-thru line and knew patrons were now not allowed inside. However, I thought I could get my coffee if I walked over to the drive-up window. Wrong. A staff-person […]
Posted inOpinion/Editorial, Uncategorized
‘Liberty And Justice For All’
It is February, Black History Month in the USA (also known as African American History Month) and Canada. It is unofficially Black History Month in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands in October. Black History Month is a month to focus on the history, culture and accomplishments of black people. Black History Month was […]
Posted inOpinion/Editorial, Uncategorized
Bible Belt-ed
As mentioned in an earlier article, I spent several weeks in the South a while ago. Friends told me that I had been in the “Bible Belt.” I decided to Google “Bible Belt.” According to Wikipedia: “The Bible Belt is an informal region in the Southern United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism plays a strong role […]
Posted inOpinion/Editorial, Uncategorized
Our Future!
The God Was sat shaking its head, distressed by hearing what was said by humans who lied and distorted facts and unconscionably committed barbaric acts. Compassion and ethics! Where now were they? Why were they so lacking in life today? It seemed that for humans a major new creed now embraced selfishness, cruelty and greed […]