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August 2026

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained/Lost
08/30/2026

A Gallery of Neighbors: The Village Art Group’s Group Show
08/28/2026

A New and Improved Way to Stay Safer Online
08/28/2026

A Trip to The Geffen Galleries
08/28/2026

Barrier Free Living - A Path to Living a More Independent Lifestyle
08/28/2026

Conversations with Art
08/28/2026

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
08/28/2026

Member Connections with Music Conductor Bill Bing
08/28/2026

Pasadena Heritage Walking Tour
08/28/2026

In Their Hands
08/23/2026

Ease of Being: Managing the stuff of everyday life
08/20/2026

A Tribute to Fire Debris Remediators and Their Super-Sized Dump Trucks
08/18/2026

Really Irene?
08/15/2026

There Is A Risk
08/09/2026

2026 Year in Review
08/03/2026

A Message From Your Newly Elected President
08/03/2026

Neighborhoods Within the Village
08/03/2026

Reflection from PUSD Intern Isabella "Izzy" Roberts
08/03/2026

Reflection on Service & Joy from 2025/26 President Dick Myers
08/03/2026

The Villager Engagement Team Welcomed 54 New Villagers
08/03/2026

Treasurer’s Report
08/03/2026

What Activity! The Cultural Activities Team Report
08/03/2026

An Even Exchange
08/01/2026

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There Is A Risk

By Lora Harrington-Pride
Posted: 08/09/2026
Tags: lora harrington pride

“I won’t have another child because I can’t take the chance.”

          “Take a chance on what Irene, what is your concern?”

          There would be no concern if I could be certain that the child would be a boy.”

“What, you don’t want another girl?”

“If the child was a girl, and she looked like Spike, I could not love her.  We were lucky with our Shirley.  She looks like me.  I think men and boys who look like Spike are gorgeous, but any female who looks like Spike would be ugly, to me.  I can’t help how I feel.  Any female darker than you Lora is ugly.”

My skin is light brown.  Spike, a handsome man, with chiseled features, the body of an athlete, was almost “coffee-Black.”  Irene was Romanian.

Lora Harrington Pride  7/12/26

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