Uncategorized
-
Ugh. Earlier this year, just after Winter Break, I and a few of my colleagues were looking at the semester ahead of us. February allowed its usual breaks for Presidents’ Day and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. But then we all looked at March: a string of five straight weeks of teaching without a break…
-
I’m not going to lie. I’m hooked on nearly every aspect of the TV show Lost, and I trust the directors/writers that there are real reasons behind the motivations of many of the characters’ actions, even if they are not apparent to us. Take Locke’s decision last Wednesday to key in 77, as instructed by…
-
Go. It’s just about 5 a.m. My time stamp is off by an hour. Is it really worth changing if we’re going to be hit with an early Daylight Savings Time switch anyway? I haven’t read anything about the changing of DST dates or the reasons behind it, but I can only assume that it…
-
It’s a pretty dangerous thing to rely on the reactions of others to gauge where you are in your life or how you might even feel about yourself. I’ve always been a person-pleaser. I’ve struggled with finding the right words to elicit the right responses at the right times. It has become almost an obsessive…
-
Where there are no desires, all things are at peace. . . This passage from the Tao te Ching has stuck with me for nearly 8 years now, but not without good discussion from friends and family members who believe we must have desires to propel us forward in our careers, our lives, our everything.…
-
Namaste. For those of you who are still checking in every now and then, I appreciate your loyalty more than you will ever know. I have not written in five weeks, and yet, you may still be stopping by. I believe that one or two of you may read this in the coming week. Know…
-
My daughter can see it on the horizon: Freedom like she’s never known before. For weeks now, she and the other 71 fifth graders at her school have been a little more electric at the thought of graduating from elementary school and moving on to the next level. Visits by the various middle schools that…
-
When I was in college as an undergrad, I spent a great deal of time studying William Wordsworth’s romantic works. He wasn’t an author I was assigned to research and analyze. I think it was more of an affinity that I felt for his writing and his passion for love and for life. I focused…
-
And so we enter week three of that lifestyle change: new diet, new exercise program, new way of thinking, new everything. I’m less than a pound away from that first benchmark of losing 10 pounds. I’m confident I’ll reach it–perhaps even surpass it–when I weigh in on Friday. I’m fortunate that Maryland offers so many…
-
yikes. Well, the unthinkable happened, and after a week of sobbing over the loss of the Colts over two decades ago and vowing revenge once and for all, we lost the game. This city, my friends, will be in need of deep psychological assistance in the coming days, months, and even years. Heck, it might…
The Baltimore Writer 