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Today’s winds created a whirlwind of chaos throughout the Baltimore region, with gusts exceeding 60 mph for most of the day. Brush fires, arcing electrical wires, and downed trees kept both police and fire crews running from one crisis to another, virtually nonstop. We went for a drive to northern Baltimore County, where a 4-acre…
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Now how many of you thought that I was talking about the weather? Well, to some extent, I am. It’s about 70 degrees here in Baltimore, with 60-mph winds due tomorrow and then snow on Monday night. As the old provincial adage goes, If you don’t like the weather in Baltimore, wait 5 minutes. This…
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Left to right: William Ackerman, James Taylor, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Garcia This afternoon, when I got home from school, I tabled some of the time-insensitive work I had waiting for me and picked up my guitar. I haven’t played in a long time, simply because I keep telling myself that I don’t have time for…
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photo: ncbeaches.com I’m getting pretty excited about the prospect of seeing my sister and her husband again soon. It’s been far too long since we’ve seen each other (they live in Orlando), and we’re brewing up a reunion of sorts in the next few months in the Carolinas. We figure that’s a good halfway mark…
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Yesterday, Madelyn brought home her paper-bag mailbox filled with hearts, candy, and valentines from her friends at school. It was a big day for her. She dressed up in a new outfit she and Amy bought at Justice last weekend. She beamed when she came home from school, and she was thrilled with her mailbox…
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I know many of you are out right now, enjoying a romantic evening with a loved one at some restaurant, celebrating the love you have shared for years, maybe months, and even possibly weeks or mere days. My wife and I do an abbreviated celebration after the kids get to bed. Good carry out food…
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This is how our Sunday ride all started. Getting the Bug to eat the bike. It did, of course, as you can see above. Yesterday, I did a test digest, and I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get the bike into the bug. Nary a worry now about being able to ride…
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Veteran blog followers know that there are some pretty deep feelings within me about the Appalachian Trail. I’ve section-hiked parts of it, but I am nowhere near completing the 2,175 miles that stretch from Georgia to Maine. I’ve had my ups and downs when on those hikes, and I have this constant yearning to return…
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Photo: http://hamptonrdsvop.wordpress.com/ Folks, I’m not really sure if there’s a surge in unhappiness and unrest around me, or if God is sharpening my sensitivity to the hurt and pain in this world. Lately, though (and I mean in just the last few weeks), many of my friends and people I love are struggling with life.…
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I’m listening to David Gray’s CD, Foundling, which I picked up at the library tonight at the suggestion of a good friend. Such a contemplative, yet soothing tracklist. Love it. A former student of mine first told me about David Gray in 2006 (I still have the CD she burned for me that year), and…
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