The Baltimore Writer

  • Creative and Uncut: The Seams of Love

    Creative and Uncut: The Seams of Love

    It is a mid-summer’s afternoon –late, and I am standing on the pitcher’s mound, playing catch with my son on a deserted baseball field, surrounded by other empty diamonds and rectangles. In just a few short weeks, these overgrown areas will be filled with children changing lives — late-game heroics and crushing defeats. In the…

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  • Mindfulness in Schools: Empowering Students For Success

    As we get ready to head back to school for the new academic year, I am aware of a movement that is sweeping across the country to make students and educators more mindful of their learning and their teaching. It is flying right in the face of high-stakes testing and assessment, but is it really…

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  • Mindfulness in the Heart of Baltimore

    Mindfulness in the Heart of Baltimore

      I don’t know if you have ever read or seen Ambrose Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” but yesterday, walking mindfully through Baltimore on my way to a photo shoot for my new gig writing for our local paper, I had one of those “occurrences” in everything that I saw, heard, and felt. If…

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  • On Being Creative: Living A Mindful and Inspired Life

    I have been in this cafe for a little over an hour, writing in my Daybook to the ambient sounds of chatter, the clanging of dishes, all blended with the meditative, hollow sounds of Deuter playing his bamboo flute. On these pages, I have written about singular moments I experienced decades ago along the marshy…

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  • Follow Your Passion

    Shift Your Energy, And Everything Changes. We all carry within us an enormous, limitless supply of energy and creativity. It has to come out of us in some form, and we make the decision time and time again how we expend it. Some of us make these decisions consciously; others have thrown themselves at the…

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  • Postmarked: Piper’s Reach Ends – My First Response

    I have had the pleasure of following the 3-season serial epistolary novella online for the last 18 months, and last evening, the final letters were posted. You can read this post HERE, or you can view the website HERE with all three seasons intact (hurry, though; this will disappear in a few weeks in preparation…

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  • A Tale of Two Interviews: Defining Moments for Jude and EL as Piper’s Reach Nears Its End

    Earlier today, I had the time to catch up on the recent letters posted at Postmarked: Piper’s Reach. Many things struck me as I found myself once again lost in the world of EL and Jude, but one thing remained with me throughout the day: The Interviews. For Jude, the interview is with Rebecca (Jude’s…

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  • No Comparison: Why Everything’s Different For Today’s Children

    (previously published at http://www.towson.patch.com, 9/8/2012) September 9-15, 2012, is National Suicide Prevention Week, and the link between bullying and suicide attempts is alarming. According to numerous studies by Yale University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bully victims are between two and nine times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims. For more…

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  • Sidewalk Applause: Bookends of a Tragedy

        Last evening, just before 9 p.m., the second suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken in to custody –injured with gun shots to the head and hand– and placed in an ambulance. Within minutes, the medic unit then led the convoy of emergency vehicles along Franklin St. and toward Beth…

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  • Come Together: Reflections From A 30-Year Reunion

    The chill of the late night flushed away the heat in my face, and I dug deep in my left denim pocket for my keys, looking over my shoulder one last time at the entrance of Chops Restaurant and Lounge. Shawn had her arms wrapped around another alum who was leaving for the night, and…

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