CREATING MORE SPACE IN LIFE By Kater Leatherman In these changing times, it seems as though having enough space is fast becoming a rare commodity. We just don’t seem to have enough of it. When life feels like a juggling act of obligations, to-do lists and pressure to keep up, one [...]
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Better Photos — No Cost By Larry Cohan Most of us would like to believe that simply buying a new, expensive DSLR camera will instantly make our photos noticeably better. Instead, it often makes the outcome worse due to the confusion caused by the increased complexity of the new camera. To paraphrase a [...]
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Free Phones from Maryland Accessible Telecommunications (MAT) Maryland Department of Information Technology/Maryland Relay Maybe, just maybe, you’ll read this and recognize someone you know. You may have just hung up the phone after talking to your mom or dad. Did you repeat yourself? Did she or he say, ‘What?’ every time you finished a [...]
Full Story »STAGING A CELEBRATORY FUNERAL AT HOME
STAGING A CELEBRATORY FUNERAL AT HOME By Kater Leatherman Home funerals. Now there’s a subject few people want to talk about. Yet they are gaining popularity, especially among the baby boomer generation. We’re the ones who wrote our wedding vows in the ’60s, revived home births in the ’70s, popularized homeschooling in the [...]
Full Story »It Takes More than a Frog to be Green
It Takes More than a Frog to be Green By Peggy Markham A famous frog once said, “It isn’t easy being green.” I am trying my best to be “green” these days and it requires a whole new vocabulary. I now think of words such as: conserve, recycle, reuse, reduce, organic, natural, sustainable, footprint, [...]
Full Story »In Search of a Kinder and Gentler Community
In Search of a Kinder and Gentler Community By Victoria Duncan The Riddle How does a bumper sticker promote better personal health and more peaceful communities? While traveling through Howard County, I spotted a bumper sticker on the car in front of me: “Choose Civility.” Giving it little thought, I followed another car sporting the [...]
Full Story »This is Your Life: Writing Your Memoir…
This Is Your Life! Writing Your Memoir…. By Peggy Markham Memories. We all have them — pasted photographs in an album, musings in a diary, stories repeated around the dinner table, a grandmother’s wedding ring, family reunions, anniversaries, birthdays. Are you ready to take a pen in hand, fill a blank page with your story [...]
Full Story »Purpose, Passion and a Paycheck
Purpose, Passion and a Paycheck By Terry D. Portis People in their 20s are regularly asked what their major is, or what career they plan to go into. Somewhere along the way we stop asking, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” In recent years, though, people in their 50s [...]
Full Story »Creating Emotional Space
CREATING EMOTIONAL SPACE By Kater Leatherman Emotional clutter includes unresolved grief and anger, fear, jealousy, anxiety, guilt, shame and resentment. These feelings need to be heard, nurtured and allowed the space to unfold. If we don’t acknowledge and feel them, they will either get projected onto others or turned inward. Many of [...]
Full Story »There be Dragons
BAY VIEW Words from the desk There be dragons. Or so it warned in Latin near the eastern coast of Asia on the early 16th century Lenox globe. When there was no clear definition or knowledge of what was out past where explorers and adventurers had gone, those words were believed by many people, [...]
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