As we enter the season of untrammeled purchasing, which some have embraced for months as others grimly postpone as long as possible, I would like to offer a little parable. It’s a bit of a shaggy fish story but there are lessons in there somewhere. I think.
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Shopping: A Cautionary Tale
As we enter the season of untrammeled purchasing, which some have embraced for months as others grimly postpone as long as possible, I would like to offer a little parable. It’s a bit of a shaggy fish story but there are lessons in there somewhere. I think.
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead and Also Before
The subject of sleep first came up a couple days ago at the breakfast table, at which my rumpled darling had wearily arrived in her plaid bathrobe in search of the restorative powers of Multigrain Cheerios and coffee. Fifteen, Jane fell in love with coffee at the malt shop, which is what our neighborhood Starbucks […]
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The Original Desperate Housewife of Dayton, Ohio
“Ever since I read that Eva Braun, Judas Iscariot and Anne Boleyn shared my zodiac sign, I never could get too choked up about astrology,” wrote Erma Bombeck in one of my favorite columns.
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When My Mother Became the Freaking Buddha
Author’s note: As I mentioned in another column, I’m working on a novel that contains a character loosely based on my mother, partly just as an excuse to have her in my head. In the process, I ended up rereading this old essay. The illness described here was not the one that finally got her […]
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Another Incredible Weight Loss Miracle
No matter what you read in the paragraphs that follow, don’t worry about me, don’t try to tell me I look just fine, and for heaven’s sake don’t exclaim next time you see me, as did one elderly acquaintance, in her Carolina drawl, “Whah, look at you. You must have lost a thousand pounds!” (At […]
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Baltimore Fishbowl’s Most Read Stories of 2015
A quick Google Analytics report reveals which stories caught the attention of our Baltimore Fishbowl audience. Here’s what you liked most in 2015. Happy New Year and thanks for reading! 10. Hopkins Launches Country’s First Lyme Disease Center by Rachel Monroe This post about Johns Hopkins opening the country’s first Lyme Disease Research Center attracted many readers […]
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JHU Neuroscientist David Linden to Speak at Barnes and Noble Tuesday, Feb. 16
Renowned Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and best-selling author David Linden will appear at the Charles Street Barnes and Noble (4701 N. Charles Street, near Hopkins Homewood Campus) on Tuesday, February 16 at 7 p.m. for a book signing and reading to promote the paperback release of TOUCH, his latest book on the brain. In honor of the occasion, […]
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The Family Gazette: Summer Edition
“Round, round, get around, we get around” NEWS Lead Story: Theater Shootings Traumatize Teenage Film Fan Jane Sartwell, 15, of Baltimore, MD, stopped to visit her aunt and uncle, Nancy and Kenny Seeback of Suffern, NY, on the way home from a Taylor Swift concert in New England last month. After enjoying dinner at a […]
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OxyClean and Oxycontin: The Mothership Visits Boston
Once one’s child is twenty-seven years old, opportunities for hands-on mothering are rare. Should this child live far away in another city, be male, have a steady girlfriend, a good job and a nice apartment, one gets at most a courtesy call in situations where one would once have played a leading role. Or would […]
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The Sky Was All Purple: Baltimore Prince Concert Report
When Prince announced his Mother’s Day Baltimore show shortly after the uprising and a few days before my birthday, I took it as a sign. This one’s for you, Marion Winik. Last time I saw my beloved Artist was more than ten years ago at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. We sat in the very […]
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A Different Shade of Grey
Grey, the fourth book in the Fifty Shades series, retelling the story from Christian Grey’s point of view, has made literary history by selling 1.1 million copies in the first four days of its release. Our Bohemian Rhapsody columnist Marion Winik, who reviews books for Kirkus and Newsday, prepared for this landmark event by reading […]
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Baltimore Fishbowl’s Betsy Boyd Named Style Mag EIC
There’s a new editor-in-chief at Baltimore Style magazine and it’s our own Betsy Boyd. Writer, teacher, mother (of toddler twins!), Betsy, 42, was recently named to head up the magazine after working there as freelance senior editor for the past year. Her first issue will come in January. She’ll continue with the Baltimore Fishbowl as literary editor.
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Our Story Now: How We’re Doing Here in Baltimore
As I have been telling friends and relatives from around the country who phoned or messaged this week to make sure we were all right amid the protests in Baltimore: I’m watching it all on TV, just like you are. My only live-action participation has been a little peace march we put together for the […]
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56 Is the New 93
Over spring break I was lucky enough to take a vacation in Miami Beach with my 14-year-old daughter Jane, my 26-year-old son Hayes, and his girlfriend Maria. Hayes and Maria, who live in Boston, had many opportunities to appreciate the reason for Jane’s ongoing frustration with me as every day I forget half of what […]
