From the Editor
I will be celebrating the holidays in Baltimore with my mother and my two
girls. This time of year, we are usually loading up the car, heading down I-95
to Columbia, S.C. to share the holidays with my mom’s side of the family. But
not this time. We’ve decided to stay home this go around to save some money
and hopefully take the trip in early summer. Of course things won’t be the
same, because what I look forward to most is the Christmas Eve fish-fry. By
Christmas Eve, the whole family – from Atlanta, Florida, New York, and D.C. –
should have all finally arrived and settled, ready to break bread, talk about the
highlights of the past year and stuff the children’s goody bags with fruit, pecans
and candy – another family tradition of ours. Coming from a big family, I sure
will miss all the commotion, last minute shopping and game nights leading up
to Christmas Day in South Carolina, but on the other hand, I am just grateful to
have a family at home to share this time with as well. –Tiffany Ginyard
Contributors
This Christmas I'm staying in
Like every year, I will be spending the
Baltimore, where I will "parang"--a
Christmas holidays in Prince George’s
favorite holiday pastime in Trinidad
County, Md. with the rest of my family.
that involves going to friends' and
By tradition, my mother and I spend
family's homes and singing Spanish-
Christmas day traveling from house to
language Christmas carols in raucous
house, exchanging gifts with our clos-
abandon before eating and drinking
est relatives. – Perry Green
them out of a house and home until
the wee hours of the morning. Feliz I am celebrating this Christmas
Navidad! -- Zenitha Prince with my family in Baltimore by
eating dinner and exchanging gifts.
This Thanksgiving I’ll be with my My most memorable childhood
family over at my aunt’s in Riverdale, Christmas is when my grandparents
Md. Being first generation American, each brought me a beautiful church
born to Trinidadian parents, we usu- dress and then argued over which
ally tend to blend the American and dress they thought I liked best.
West Indian dishes as a part of our –Sherna Johnson
tradition. So along with the Turkey,
cranberry sauce and stuffing, there’ll
I’ll be spending the holidays at home
be curry goat, stew duck and callaloo
in New Jersey with my parents and
(West Indian spinach dish).
other relatives. My most cherished
– Alan King
holiday tradition is sitting around
the fire place with loved ones.
– Kristin Gray
Even though most of my family lives
in the tri-state area we hardly see
each other. So I would have to say
I will be spending the holidays with
that’s what I look forward too the
my extended family in Baltimore.
most -- seeing the family members
Every year my family gathers at the
that I love and even the ones that I
biggest house to have Thanksgiving
frequently dislike, it makes me smile
and Christmas dinner. Each family
and erases all of my worries.
contributes a dish and this year I'm
–Marcus A. Williams
hoping to contribute something else
besides the drinks!
– Joi-Marie McKenzie
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