Wellness

  • What Is Love?

    What Is Love?

    It was the summer of 1985, I was a rising junior at Towson State University, and I was rebounding from a break up with my high school sweetheart. My friend Bryan decided that a road trip to Kings Dominion Theme Park in Richmond would be a good way to get my mind off of “the…

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  • I just finished reading The Witch Of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, first published in 1958. My goodness, did this book get me thinking about what it means to live authentically. For, I don’t how many years, the idea of living “authentically” has permeated our social streams and, before that, our print stories and…

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  • Rus VanWestervelt’s latest work, 2732 Prisms of Love-Stained Light, is scheduled to launch worldwide on 21 December 2021, but you can pre-order your copy today through December 15 at a reduced price.  Benefits of preordering include: – Personalized copy signed by the author – Price reduced to just $11 for hand-delivered copies – Shipping only…

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  • Being Resolute in 2018: Begin Within

    If we make happiness our primary goal instead of our secondary goal, then we easily accomplish everything else we desire. ~Deepak Chopra Across the country and throughout the world, people are asking themselves the same question: What will my resolutions be for 2018? The “Greatest Hits” of resolutions include weight loss, saying goodbye to cigarettes…

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  • Pedestrian Safety: An Urgent Matter in Maryland

    Exclusive for Baltimore County Breaking News By Rus VanWestervelt (@rusvw13, rus@bcobreakingnews.com) I’ve been working with Baltimore County Breaking News for more than two years now, and we’ve covered a lot of tragic events during that time. It’s been heartbreaking to be the dispatcher sharing the news with our followers, or the writer providing the follow-up…

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  • Taking A Walk In The Woods

    I’m sharing this on the trail here in Gunpowder Falls State Park, where I’ve decided to take a little walk in the woods to reconnect with the Earth. This is my first mobile post here at The Baltimore Writer, an experiment to bring you my experiences more immediately, perhaps a little raw and incomplete.  It’s…

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  • Share More, Think Less

    I spend a lot of time in my head, thinking and thinking and thinking about what to write about. Even though I keep a little Piccadilly notebook with me at all times, capturing little snippets of life that I find interesting, I don’t do enough with them. In those moments, I am happy that I…

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  • My Friend Is Depressed: What Can I Do?

    One of the most common questions we are asked at Lines of Love is, “My friend is depressed and I don’t know what to do. How can I help?” The answer is pretty simple, but we can get overwhelmed with presumed responsibility of taking care of everything, and immediately. We look for the instant fix…

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