Buffalo Soldier
Every day on my commute, I drive past a farm in northern Maryland. You can't miss it. It's the one with all the buffalo. Twin Springs Bison Farm not only…
The Eyes Have It
I have always loved the ability to buy things on the Internet. With just a few clicks, you can have some new music on your computer or get yourself some new clothes or even pick out a new book to read.
Recently, I discovered another cool thing I could order online – contact lenses. But the simple process of allowing myself to see the world clearly has brought one big question to my mind.
What is with the militant oversight of vision prescriptions?
Book Review: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Because the one big piece of fiction I have written (attention agents - you can read it if you want!) revolves around the impact of music on the lives of…
ITEOTWAWKI: Reckoning and Olympia
The band put out their second reissue this week as a new treatment of "Reckoning" hit the stores on Tuesday. The new disc also includes a concert from the ensuing…
Book Review: How to Talk to a Widower
I found Jonathan Tropper by accident. While scanning the shelves at a local bookstore for something to read, the cover for The Book of Joe caught my eye. I had…
Place Your Bets
The good news just keeps flowing the way I see it. Delaware has started on the road to table games with the first ones expected by January. Sports betting is…
Book Review: 1949
I have a decent background with Ireland. I traveled there once, did my senior thesis for college on Irish literature and have read several different books on the island's history.…
What a Coincidence
I could not believe my eyes. As I sat with my daughter to eat lunch at the Maryland Zoo 10 days ago, I thought I saw someone I knew.
Since I grew up and now work in Baltimore, this should not come as a surprise, but I still had trouble wrapping my mind around it.
That had nothing to do with who I saw. I did enjoy catching up with a former co-worker. It’s just that this thing seems to happen to me all the time.
I don’t want to sound like I have a million friends or anything like that, but I seem to run into people I know in the strangest of places.
ITEOTWAWKI: Back in Action
I have procrastinated posting this, but the boys of R.E.M. - well two of them at least - have started the process that will hopefully lead to the follow-up to…
How Could They Tell?
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. I feel bad for the poor MillerCoors PR guy who had to announce this news. MillerCoors has recalled a batch of Coors Light in…