Grandmother

SARASOTA, Fla. - Each time Orioles outfielder Jai Miller crosses the plate after hitting a home run, his eyes turn upward and both of his hands point to the sky. It's a routine he's been doing since he was a teenager, one of many ways he tries to honor his mother and grandmother, both of whom he watched die in a car accident when he was 13 years old. But Miller's greatest tribute comes every day he's on a baseball field as he continues his...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Each time Orioles outfielder Jai Miller crosses the plate after hitting a home run, his eyes turn upward and both of his hands point to the sky. It's a routine he's been doing since he was a teenager, one of many ways he tries to honor his mother and grandmother, both of whom he watched die in a car accident when he was 13 years old. But Miller's greatest tribute comes every day he's on a baseball field as he continues his...

Last week as I was watching the Olympic bobsledding with my grandchildren I had a memory flashback and said quietly: ''I had a bobsled!''''You did?'' was their incredulous response, and I hastened to add: ''Yes, but not one as sleek as they have now.''I grew up in Hamburg, Germany, where the climate is very much like Baltimore's, with very little snow during the winter. When it falls, slopes and hills turn into playgrounds for children and their sleds.My grandmother was a statuesque woman, resolute, wise and my childhood companion.

Dr. Karen Reddy and Gregory Scholten , of Columbia, announce the birth of their son, Skyler Garrison Scholten , on Nov. 23, 2011, at 5:10 p.m. He weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces. His siblings are Logan and Foster. His grandmother is Beverly Reddy, of Lakemoor, Ill.

*TC Annapolis.-- I didn't really get to know my grandmother well -- Grandma as I called her -- until I reached adulthood and she was already 80. That's when she started to slow down. Until then I knew her mostly as the woman who would return my letters with red-penned grammatical corrections and as the ''baby sitter'' when my parents were away on trips.She corrected our table manners, put us to bed an hour early, took us to daily mass. She inquired whether our parents were taking us to sites of historical significance.

In "The Deaths of Sybil Bolton," Baltimore resident Dennis McAuliffe Jr. probes the 1925 death of his maternal grandmother in order to learn more about his country, his family, and himself. His book attempts to make sense of an upsetting family discovery: His grandmother died not of illness, as had been thought, but of a gunshot wound. The author locates some evidence that Sybil Bolton committed suicide, but, unsatisfied with this version of events, he pursues the story further. He is haunted by a third explanation for her death at 22: He thinks she was murdered.

An Edgewater man was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with attacking his grandmother because she would not let him use her car, police said.Frances Mae Collins, 67, of the 200 block of Linden Ave. reported the attack about 1:30 a.m., police said. She told officers that her grandson, who lives with her, hit her and knocked her into a wall, injuring her back. Mrs. Collins is partly disabled and uses a cane.The grandson, Joseph Brian Wheeler, 30, claimed he hit his grandmother after she attacked him with the cane, police said.

The grandmother of Olney native Sgt. James R. McIlvaine, killed Thursday in Iraq, characterized him as a man who longed to please his father, which is exactly what he did when became a Marine in 2001. Sergeant McIlvaine joined the Marines after attending Sherwood High School and graduating from a military school in Virginia. "His father was very patriotic, loved the flag and country," said Patty DeSimone, Sergeant McIlvaine's paternal grandmother, who said her grandson died in combat in Al Anbar province.

GROWING UP IN an Irish-American home, I ate a fair amount of corned beef. It was another form of brisket, one of our favorite Sunday dinners.I am not sure how my family became a clan of brisket eaters, instead of salmon lovers. My maternal grandmother, who was born in Ireland and lived with my family when I was a boy, seemed to prefer fresh fish as the entree of choice when "company" -- distant relatives or acquaintances from Ireland -- would visit our house for dinner.Once I tagged along with my grandmother when she went to the local fish market.

A century ago, a teen-age orphan named Dorothea Schmidt worked hard leading oxen and keeping house for a family that rewarded her with little more than moldy bread, thick milk and potatoes.Today, her namesake and granddaughter, Dorothea A. Gross, 74, is comfortably retired in her brick farmhouse off Lees Mill Road south of here, surrounded by 250 acres of fertile fields she leases out to another family to farm.But all the stories she had heard from her grandmother and then her mother still live with her, preserved in two small books Gross wrote and had published at her own expense by a vanity press -- a publishing house that will print anyone's book as long as they're willing to pay for it."

Michael and Lauren Maurice, of York, Pa., announce the birth of their first child. Ryan Michael Maurice arrived Aug. 15 in York Hospital at 4:58 p.m. He weighed 4 pounds, 7 ounces and was 18.5 inches long. Catonsville residents Gene and Dottie Maurice are his grandparents, as are Stuart and Patti Stone, of Leonardtown. Ryan's great-grandmothers are Rita Sanders, of Catonsville; Dorothy Kinnard, of Glen Burnie; Dorothy Black, of Manchester, and Dorothy Stone, of Hampstead.

A 36-year-old man was ordered held without bail Tuesday after being arrested and charged with killing his grandmother inside her Northwest Baltimore home, according to city police and court records. Demond Tyler was charged with first- and second-degree murder and assault in the death of Shirley Tyler, 67, who was found by a family member Saturday morning unconscious inside her home in the 3200 block of Spaulding Ave. in Central Park Heights. Her death had not been previously reported because at the time it was listed as a suspicious death.

Brian and Nicole Dougherty of Pylesville, announce the birth of their son, Oliver Westley Dougherty. Born July 31 at 8:47 p.m., he weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces and measured 21.5 inches. Grandparents are Albert and Ila Dukes, of Bel Air; Dave and Peg Dougherty, of Pylesville; and great-grandmother is Margaret Dougherty, of Pylesville.

The case of a 14-year-old Baltimore boy, who allegedly confessed to beating his grandmother with a hammer this spring, will be heard in juvenile court. Hassanhii Garrett had been charged as an adult with attempted murder in the attack, which police said occurred after he became enraged while getting ready for school one morning. He was scheduled for trial Monday, but online court records show that the case was remanded to juvenile court on Aug. 1. Under state law, teens 14 and older who are accused of certain violent crimes must be charged as adults from the outset.

I got the news in Florida this morning that Bubba Smith had died. I couldn't help but smile as I recalled a true story that happened while I still lived in Baltimore. My brother, Dr. I. Norton Brotman was a well known dentist in Baltimore - he was the Colts dentist in their heyday. He was instrumental in designing mouth guards for the team as well as caring for any dental problems that arose. My father, Dr. Robert H. Brotman, also a well known dentist in Baltimore, received a phone call one Sunday, and the male voice asked for Bubba.

Martha O. Roseman, a retired Johns Hopkins University associate dean of academic advising who was recalled as a "grandmother" of the Homewood campus, died of cancer July 22 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Pikesville resident was 90. Born Martha Ozrowitz in Brooklyn, N.Y., she earned a degree at the Bernard Baruch School of Business, a branch of the City College of New York. In an autobiographical sketch, she recalled taking additional courses at the school's 135th Street campus, which was not coed and where she said she was "surrounded by 5,000 male undergraduates.

A 6-year-old boy weighing only 24 pounds was hospitalized pTC yesterday, and his grandmother and her boyfriend were arrested and charged with child abuse, city police said.The child, Maurice Royster, who will turn 7 next month, was listed in fair condition early today at the University of Maryland Medical Center.Police said the child was found in a first-floor room but told them he also had been locked in the basement of his home, a rowhouse in the 1500 block of N. Payson St., for an unknown amount of time.

JOHN SNYDER ALWAYS enjoyed visiting his grandmother, Anna Snyder, in the Allegany County town of La Vale. Sitting at her kitchen table, drinking a cup of coffee, they would exchange stories of family life, now and long ago.Over the years, Snyder came to appreciate the rich legacy of love and history his grandmother was sharing with him. In his words, "There are so many interesting stories older people can tell us. And if we don't record them, those stories...

It could be said that Sheila Song's choice of career as a geriatric pharmacist is in herblood. For it is the close relationship the Carney resident has long shared with her grandmother, Cheng Soon Song, now 89, who had a major role in Song's upbringing, and who led Song to see that there is both need and reward in working with the elderly. The Loch Raven High School graduate, Song, 25, recently earned her Doctorate of Pharmacy after completing an intensive four-year program at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.