Scribbles from the Margen

  Now that Match Madness is over and two terrific No. 1 seeds won the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball titles (though I was cheering for th...

  It’s been a little over a week since the demise of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.   My emotions have run the gamut over these 9 days or so,...

 It’s gone. The Francis Scott Key Bridge is gone. My brain is slowly beginning to wrap itself around that cold, hard fact but my heart is ha...

My older sister died earlier this month. Thanks to the dynamics of an extremely dysfunctional family, we had been estranged for more than 30...

 As we all become more pandemic-dreary, seeing the light at the end of the tunnel while also being a little afraid or unsure of that light, ...

  I’m getting more than a little tired of the game-playing being done with Covid-19 death numbers to help this political side or that one. T...

I got my first giggle of the day today when I read the Facebook status update from my friend Julia Jackson McCready: “For those of you who ...