Category Archives: Miscellany
Baltimore.
I’m a Marylander, but I don’t live in Baltimore. It’s been about two years since I visited Charm City. Yet Maryland is a small state, and many of us, regardless of how often we may get there, consider Maryland’s largest city, warts and all, a major component of the state’s identity. All that by way …
Must I Bear Being a Bore? Not Yet.
I think I might be boring. All right, that might be a tad harsh on myself. Still, this week I’ve been forced to wonder. Twice in the last week I started a blog post, only to be struck with a sort of deja vu after a paragraph or so. In both cases I discovered, upon …
Bracket Bust and Vested Interests
I don’t follow college basketball. But this year I filled out a bracket for the first time ever. I didn’t research anything. I simply chose based on hunches, and a bit on “how much I have heard people mention this team.” A team I picked to go to the championship already lost a game on …
Books, Books, Everywhere and Not a Page to Enjoy?
I went to the local library today to find a novel to read. No big deal, right? Actually, it can be at least a medium deal for me. For starters I read kind of slow, so the time investment hangs over any novel I pick up. Which is why I tend to give a book …
Meanderings: Cornfields.
The fields adjacent to my house are farmed by their owner each year. The crops are rotated annually, of course, and about every three or four years, corn takes its turn, much to my chagrin. It’s not unpleasant at first. The green, leafy sprouts of young corn are, if not picturesque at least possessive of …
Ty Unglebower 