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Boy clips a coupon, surrounded by dollar bills and coupons
Coupon clipping as a cool new activity? Explaining inflation and saving to kids
You don’t have to be old enough for a bank account to start to understand money.
An illustration of former Miss Oriole Bonnie Habyan.
A former Miss Oriole and proud daughter writes of her mother’s witty wisdom and her hometown
Author Bonnie Habyan — the former Miss Oriole 1987, and wife of former Orioles pitcher John Habyan — is in town to promote the book she wrote about her mother.
An illustration of a mother with a child having a meltdown surrounded by caring and judgmental eyes.
Way to go, Mom! Why it’s better to encourage those parenting through a public meltdown
Parenting is an emotionally unpredictable enterprise. Doing it in public ratchets up the unpredictability — don’t make it worse by staring or scolding.
Columnist Leslie Streeter with her late husband Scott Zervitz on their wedding day in 2010 in Palm Beach, Fla.
No longer the bad day: How the meaning and sadness of my husband’s death anniversary has evolved into something sweeter
Death anniversaries can be devastating, but with time, healing and a new happy event, that bad day can evolve into something kinder.
Chef Pii and her infamous pink sauce.
Giving a Maryland-based side-eye to the latest viral TikTok food trends
TikTok-trendy food delivery of perishable morsels gives this Maryland girl pause.
Illustration of a woman weighing all of her travel options.
Summer travel is a heated proposition this year
A local travel coordinator gives advice about how to navigate the slog of summer air travel.
7/19/22—Taylor Spann fills out her ballot inside Hazelwood Elementary/Middle School during Maryland’s primary election on Tuesday, July 19.
Election 2022: Even on the precipice of democracy, some hometown hope
Even as things look bleak for democracy and for Baltimore, there’s something deeply moving about the scene at a local polling place.
No, I don’t want to sell you my house: The cold calls of summer
Those unsolicited calls, texts and mailers to homeowners about buying their houses ASAP are rampant this summer, and I am wondering what to do about it.
Leslie Streeter
Navigating the morass of summer camp
Summertime presents a conundrum for working parents: what the heck to do with kids too young to stay home alone.
7/8/22—A squeegee worker cleans a windshield at the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
Squeegee workers: Neighborhood nephews, nuisances or nefarious? Maybe it starts in how you look at them
The auntie in me sees hardworking youths not much older than my son. But yesterday’s violence proves how complicated it is.
A dinosaur-clad Brooks Streeter-Zervitz enjoying the scene of the Tears For Fears concert below at Merriweather Post Pavilion.
Jamming in his jammies: Making my kid my concert buddy
I brought my son to see ’80s band Tears For Fears and it was cheaper than a sitter.
Leslie Streeter
More obstacles, worse prizes and a Sharknado: Why I believe in student loan forgiveness
It's unfair to encourage student borrowers to take on a crippling economic obligation knowing that it might be years before they make more than they paid for their degrees.
Camden Yards home of teh Baltimore Orioles baseball team.
One reporter’s favorite Baltimore sites featured in TV, movies
Baltimore is home to notable landmarks, from TV to the big screen, with a little R&B thrown in for good measure.
Own Babiuch, 10, is held up by his father, Chris, during a protest after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court.
Roe v. Wade overturned: It’s not really about the children
Whenever one believes life begins, many who oppose abortion have never supported the lives of children once they’re born.
Columnist Leslie Streeter with her late husband Scott Zervitz on their wedding day in 2010 in Palm Beach, Fla.
How long is too long to grieve?
Prolonged grief added to ‘psychiatric bible,’ but could that further bury the conversation?
Playwright R. Eric Thomas sits on a bench for a portrait.
Writer R. Eric Thomas on his new play and coming back to Baltimore
“Crying On Television” plays at Everyman Theatre through June 26.
Baltimore Banner columnist Leslie Streeter enjoys an afternoon in her backyard with her mother, Tina.
Daughter of the Bride: A Father’s Day tribute to my mother as she remarries
I lucked out not only in the Daddy department — man, do I miss him — but especially with my mom.
At left: Columnist Leslie Gray Streeter (right) and twin sister Lynne, both 34, celebrate finishing the full marathon at the Baltimore Running Festival in 2005 with a funnel cake. At right: An older, slower but probably not wiser Leslie, 47,  about to cross the finish at the Running Festival's half marathon in 2018.
I’m a big girl running. I’m not trying to be inspirational. I’m just trying to get these miles in.
A "runner's body" conjures images of lithe, young, lean people, but columnist Leslie Gray Streeter knows that a "runner's body" is really just whatever body you run in, even when it's older and larger. And she wishes people would stop being so shocked about it.
Leslie Streeter
In Baltimore, everything seems awful, but most citizens are optimistic. I get it.
This hopefulness is the same sentiment that brought columnist Leslie Streeter back to her hometown.
Leslie Gray Streeter wearing a face mask while traveling.
You can take that mask off, but I’m keeping mine
Baltimore Banner columnist Leslie Streeter on flying after federal mask mandate ruled unconstitutional.
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