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Lorenzo on His Award-Winning Watering

I love to cook big, giant steaks and popcorn. We don't grow any steaks or popcorn at the garden...

Dionte on Construction, but with Plants

When I grow up, I want to be a construction worker, but if that doesn't work out, I will be a p...

Lola on City Blossoms

When you look around this city, so many of the spaces are built by and for adults. Most kids fe...

Josef on Making it Count

Working at an underground sex club taught me about hard work and humility. I got paid $9 an hou...

Maudine on Her Only Regret

My first perception at Howard in the 50's was that all of the young men were impoverished becau...

Ahkibah Ben Yehuda on the African Hebrew Israelites

I had a growing consciousness around the fact that my people were taken from our homeland and b...

Pastor Gregorio on Her Prayer for the City

Through being a pastor, I have met so many people from all walks of life in this city. I have l...

Alycea on Punching Earthquakes and Tornadoes

I want to tell all of the kids in Washington not to worry about tornadoes and earthquakes becau...

Meaza on Bringing Her Kids to Washington

The United States has been good to me, but I hope that my children will like it here. I think t...

Kent on Park View

Park View is a smaller neighborhood that, unfortunately, tends to get misrepresented or lost. I...

Sidra on Raising Your Kids Right

I tell you, Southeast ain't nothing but corruption. I don't want to live or raise my children h...

Joe on Life Lessons from the Bar

Working in a bar environment can be very exciting and rewarding. I guess you have to like peopl...

Markita on Going from Nothing to Something

People come to this city to be amazed by what we do and see every day. That means something.

Katie on Community Gardening

It used to be that everyone had a garden. If you had dirt, you were growing something. At a cer...

Violet on Respecting Your Elders

See, I am 75 and it is not time for me to stop living. Retirement was when I was supposed to st...

Andrew on Being Blelvis

You can say that Blelvis was born the day that Elvis died on August 16, 1977.

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