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Posted inFeatured, Lifeline, My Real Life Modern Family

Checkpoint Charlie: Before the Wall Came Down

by Ellen HartleyJanuary 28, 2015August 10, 2022

Twenty-five years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. University of Baltimore MFA student Ellen Hartley recalls a night in 1966 when she and her student husband tried to cross to East Berlin. What stopped them might make you grateful. “Halten Sie — sofort!” A guttural voice. “Schnell aus dem Auto!” Danny […]

Posted inLifeline, My Real Life Modern Family

An Unaffiliated Jew: How I Got Religion

by Ellen HartleySeptember 3, 2014August 10, 2022
Posted inFeatured, Lifeline, My Real Life Modern Family

He Married Her Best Friend

by Ellen HartleyMarch 19, 2014August 10, 2022
Posted inCulture

God Should Have Gone to Law School: Two Funny Poems for Friday

by Ellen HartleyJanuary 31, 2014August 10, 2022
Posted inTop Headlines

Dilemma: “Does My Life Have Direction?”

by Ellen HartleyJuly 24, 2013August 9, 2022
Posted inTop Headlines

Car Talk: A Memoir

by Ellen HartleyApril 17, 2013August 9, 2022

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