Here’s my father with former Washington Post reporter Michael Abramowitz at the graduation ceremony.
On Tuesday, my father, Bill Sumner, became a certified tour guide at the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum.
After his months of preparation, his first duty, along with the other new tour guides, was to take his friends and family around for a tour.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Leisure World in Silver Spring to watch by former Hebrew School principal, Harriet Steinhorn-Roth, talk about her time during the Holocaust. Of course, I brought along my new camera equipment and recorded it (I could’ve done a better job if I knew what I was doing, but it is what it is).
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There are two people who used to be in my life that had wronged me. I can sum up their actions with one word – betrayal. Continue reading “Nightmares”
From 2003-2005, I was a court appointed special advocate, or CASA, for Montgomery County, MD. I was given one client, and I spent two years with him before the case was closed.
When I first met him, he was living in a group home, away from his mother as the living conditions at her house weren’t deemed suitable by the county, to put it nicely.
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My mother and grandmother like telling me about the time they took me to the very first Maryland Renaissance Festival. This was in Columbia, long before it moved to Crownsville. I only found these four photos but it was great uncovering them after years of hearing about it. This book says Penn and Teller were there.
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