Upbringing

Town Center Community Association is seeking craft vendors for a juried annual Holiday Craft Fair, to be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 22 at Historic Oakland, the 19th-century restored building at 5430 Vantage Point Road. Information: Patricia Loeber,...

The Central Maryland User Group (CMUG) for Windows personal computers will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bain Center, 5470 Ruth Keeton Way. The group meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month. Everyone is welcome. Information: 301-...

The Bain Center Council is presenting a series of dances from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on selected Fridays at the Bain Center, 5470 Ruth Keeton Way. The Goldenaires Orchestra will provide music for this week's dance; Ray Mercer will play for the Aug. 8...

Classes for preschoolers at the Central Library are designed to teach creative expression and social skills, increase comprehension and lay the foundation for reading through letter and number recognition, and build vocabulary. "What's in My Art Box?"...

When Eric Christiansen wasn't singing during his young son's music class this spring, everybody knew it. Lip synching? Not an option. Christiansen, 29, was the only adult male in the room. The group was him, a female teacher and about eight women he'd...

In a presidential campaign focused on the future, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama spend a lot of time talking about their pasts. Both lean heavily on tales of early, formative experiences - she running a law clinic in Arkansas, he as a...

The prose of Calvin Trillin, witty and light as gossamer, has been harnessed to a sorrow profound enough for Dostoyevsky. The great American satirist writes of his epic love and epic loss in About Alice but in the same wry style familiar to readers of...

OH, those little sisters can be pesky. Just ask Avery Lopez, 7, who shares a bedroom with one. She and Sophia, 5, sometimes squabble over toys or who won a game. "When she's in the room," Avery declares, "she's loud." But both sisters say they would...

The day that Marilyn Lancelot won the biggest jackpot of her life, she left the casino in Yuma, Ariz., with every penny of the $4,000 that had poured out of the slot machines. This time she knew that she would never gamble again. She was right,...

AT THE TIME, no one could have known what the dust clouds rising from the Hempstead Plains would mean. Not the young veteran Herb Kalisman, who regarded them from a train in the Hicksville station as he headed from his rented Brooklyn attic to the...

As a child, Felice was always bothered by the sound of a clock ticking. It would distract her so much that she could barely concentrate on other tasks at hand. "I would miss a lot because I was paying attention to the wrong things," she said. "It was like...

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