• Instant Happy Therapy: You Are In Control

    I am fascinated with the trends on my social media feeds, or at least the ones that Facebook and other social networking sites chooses for us. If somebody with a pretty strong presence in my feed rails about the injustices of customer service, it seems as if it is nearly always followed by a run…

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  • More Than A Moonrise

    More Than A Moonrise

    I do not know whether to trip over the light of the moon, Or walk gently along the beams that find their way, A cool, quarter-million miles to where I stand This invitation to abandon stress, release the burdens, and follow play. I marvel at its simplicity, Framed in the silhouette of a Maple tree’s…

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  • Peaceful Heart, Peaceful World

    If you wish to bring peace to the world, you must first bring peace to your own heart.” ~rvw

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  • Where I’m Writing: Prospect Hill Cemetery

    I spent the afternoon at Prospect Hill Cemetery here in Towson, six acres of burial grounds on preserved land just feet from the hectic circle joining five of Towson’s busiest streets. I am working on a feature that will be published September 10, just two days from the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore.…

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  • Slow Down: Abandon the Speed of Your Newsfeed

    My newsfeeds on multiple social media sites stream by me at a too-fast rate, pushing news and updates across my screen faster than I can refresh them. Emails await my replies in an overflowing inbox, and text messages are still unanswered from last night. The world is too much with us…. wrote William Wordsworth in…

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  • An Afternoon in Butler, MD

    The following photos were all taken in Butler, MD, earlier this afternoon while on our way to Maryland Saddlery. Madelyn needed a new bit for her bridle, so Braeden and I took to the back roads to snap a few photos. All of these pictures were taken within 2 miles of the Saddlery. There’s beauty…

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  • When Mom’s Organics first opened in Lutherville a few years ago, I scoffed a little at the charging stations they reserved in the front spaces of their parking lot. I just didn’t think the whole electric car thing had caught on in this area to justify reserved spaces. Well, today I stand corrected. It makes…

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  •   In yesterday’s post, I wrote about the story of a barn in Finksburg, MD, and the charge of energy I received when slowing down to really absorb its beauty and purpose. Today’s TBW Writing Prompt is all about energy. We all have at least one place that charges us, don’t we? For some, that…

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  • There’s an old barn on Deer Park Road in Finksburg, MD, that I have passed over 2,000 times in the past 7 years. It stands rather defiantly, showing the wear of decades of harsh weather. Each time I pass it, I am drawn to its stand-alone beauty against a backdrop of rolling hills of farmland and…

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