I was at Home Depot yesterday, staring at the recently offloaded plants displayed on the parking lot, wondering who wanted to come home with me. There’s no room in my tiny yard for vegetables plus, I hate to confess, I’m easily influenced by looks. I studied the roses for a Read more
Academy Art Museum presents Rauschenberg 100: New Connections through May 3 — featuring the rarely exhibited 100-foot Chinese Summerhall and a local connection to the artist that no other institution can claim Most of the world has never seen Chinese Summerhall. And most of the people who have seen it Read more
This spring Pickering Creek Audubon Center and Delmarva Community Service (DCS), Inc. will join forces for Greening the Grounds, a project to create new native plant habitats at two DCS properties in Cambridge. These locations include the Chesapeake Grove Intergenerational Center and DCS administrative offices at the Delmarva Action Center. Read more
UM SRH team members and representatives of Infinite Legacy assembled on April 1 at UM Shore Medical Center at Easton for the annual Donate Life Flag Raising ceremony, honoring past organ donors and their families. University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH), a member organization of the University of Read more
John Cheek would have been labeled an “athlete-scholar” during his years at Washington College—a convenient phrase for students who arrived on athletic scholarships and were also expected, somewhere down the list, to succeed in the classroom. I’ve never liked the term. I doubt Cheek would have either. Washington College never Read more
Agent 86 reported to Control recently that he was quite down in the mouth after reading recent news reports, taking in From & Fuller’s commentary on them, and watching his 401(k) seasaw. Control suggested that 86 immerse himself in something therapeutic as a remedy. So 86 spent the afternoon photographing Read more
Agent 86 reported to Control recently that he was quite down in the mouth after reading recent news reports, taking in From & Fuller’s commentary on them, and watching his 401(k) seasaw. Control suggested that 86 immerse himself in something therapeutic as a remedy. So 86 spent the afternoon photographing Read more
There is a rare elegance in the simplicity of skipjacks, a gentle reminder that true beauty is both crafted and earned. “Two Skipjacks” by Kevin Lynam.
In a recent column, I explored Truth Commissions and similar initiatives as ways for oppressors and victims to process conflict and achieve justice. There were no such commissions created in Germany after World War II. Nevertheless, Germany eventually came to grips with Nazism and became a leader in remembering the Read more
(I am off on a little adventure this weekend, so this is a reprint of a spring-y piece from a couple of years ago. Go out to your farmers’ markets this weekend and revel in fresh vegetables and all that pollen!) I wandered through the back yard and start thinking Read more