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  • A Chill In August (Re)Ignites The Fire To Teach

    It reached 77 degrees today, on this, the 24th of August. Blue sky, patchy white clouds, and the eerie absence of a Baltimore humidity that makes thousands of locals usually proclaim, “It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity.” In Baltimore, it’s been neither this summer; just one late-spring day after another. Heat waves have lasted…

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  • The Five-Minute Photo Shoot

    photo: rus vanwestervelt, goucher college, towson, md 9/26/11 My drive home from school today took less time than I expected, and I had exactly ten extra minutes before I had to pick up my oldest daughter to take her to the gym. Given the fact that I was still five minutes from home, that left…

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