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Bagels and Banter With Max Crownover, Chair of the Steering Committee, PFLAG

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Dear HoCo Diary, If Howard County needed to select a delegate to represent the area at a National Convention of Awesomeness, I, Colleen Morgenthau, would nominate Max Crownover to represent us. We met at Bagel Bin in River Hill Shopping Center to discuss his work as a leader of the Howard County chapter of PFLAG, one of the oldest and most influential LGBT advocacy groups in the country and the county. And that is what I thought as I sat down with our sandwiches, that no wonder Max is the head of an organization that’s all about caring and compassion. … Read more

Getting to Know Robin Holliday of HorseSpirit Arts Gallery

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2Dear HoCo Diary, This entry is about a HoCo location, but also a business, and as ever with mine and Colleen’s writings on this website, it’s about a person. The location is Old Ellicott City (OEC), the business is HorseSpirit Arts gallery, and the person is Robin Holliday. She curates the second item on that list, and at one time it was located in the heart of OEC on Main Street. It was destroyed in the 20136 flood. Holliday, loyal to the community she loved, elected to bring HorseSpirit back there. “People asked me why would I bring my business back … Read more

Gabbing With David Saunier of human | creative + code, Building a HoCo Business

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Dear HoCo Diary, A little-known Colleen Morgenthau fact–mostly because it just doesn’t come up that often–is that I have a Master’s in Rhetoric. My interest in the field was and is rather traditional, in the sense that it has to do with the nuts and bolts of language, in particular tropes and figures, and their persuasive effects, the scholarship which was mostly done pre-20th-century. I thought of this phrase “nuts and bolts” as I walked up once again to Cured/18th & 21st, where I’d been two weeks ago to talk to local restaurateur Vince Culotta. I caught myself smiling goofily … Read more

Dishing With Regina Clay–A New Queen, an Old Soul

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So far my favorite part of the many things I’m loving about an evolving friendship with a new HoCo pal, Regina Clay, are the looks she gives me when I say things that strike her as a little…out there. She’s connected to the spiritual not just in her life as the pastor of New Queen Esther AME Church in Easton, Maryland, but by her overall vibration, to use a New Age-y phrase for it. Her unmistakable energy, the one that envelops you, holding you tight as tight as a hug when you’re in close proximity to her, is decidedly religious, electric. … Read more

A Rap Session With Vince Culotta of Cured/18th & 21st

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As I gathered my belongings on my way out the door of our home-on-wheels, I could sense Moses getting antsy at my impending departure. He was scurrying about the RV after me wagging his tail and looking up at me with those big, expectant dog-eyes. “Moses–stay!” I snapped at him and immediately felt like a meanie mom for doing so. As I put the strap of my crossbody sling over my head, my motions slowed down. I had that feeling of waking up disoriented from a nap, flashing back to countless mornings when I’d be preparing to leave our apartment … Read more

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