Off Season OC: night scapes
Snow falls in front of the Dunes Manor Hotel. Rates for the ocean front hotel are as low as $71.00/night in the off season. Jess and I went to Ocean City for her 27th birthday at the end of January. For some reason, I decided to incorporate
10am Update: Calvin Gholston, Jr
Nineteen year old Calvin Gholston Jr, just received his 25th and last leg lengthening surgery at Sinai Hospital Monday February 20th, 2006. The four-year anniversary of his life-changing surgery is coming up on the 20th. So, lets all collectively wish him well! Here is a link to the Catonsville Times article. We also did a [...]
Cliff McCormick
Officially, Cliff McCormick won his match by forfeit. New Town was unable to match him with a 103 weight varsity wrestler. The Towson High School senior with cerebral palsy, maneuvers about The General’s bench section during the Generals’ match against New Town Thursday, January 21, 2010. His spirits are a little low. He had three [...]
Hampden plays in the snow
Scout DeBartolo’s Chihuahua-terrier mix Walter Stanley Garcia, appropriately clad for the snow storm, is taken on a walk down the
Snow essay at Lake Kittylitter
Branches protrude form the frozen waters of Lake Kittamaqundi during the preliminary snowfall Friday, February 5, 2010. Lake Kittylitter is what my old boss Tenney Mason would call Columbia, MD’s Lake Kittamaqundi. …because, lets be honest, it’s a
Teach(ing) For America
Barely illuminated by the overhead projector, David Donaldson explains the creative writing assignment to his second 9th grade English class of the day. He is in his second year as a
Fallen Heroes Day
Baltimore city police detective Tom Bender covers Christina Lippy and her daughter Madison from the rain. Christina Lippy’s husband, Trooper First Class Mickey Lippy, of the Maryland State Police Aviation Command, was killed in a
His New Heart, Part 3.
Noah Thyberg, 11, standing next to head referee Brad Hewlick, from Edgewater, was the guest coin tosser for the River Hill/Atholton 3A regional championship game in Clarksville Friday November, 20 2009.
Packages for the Homeless
Students at Boy’s Latin line up outside the school’s stadium to load care packages for the
Sometimes Families Fight …with SNOW!!!
Visiting family for the holidays gets rowdy for Aleigh Jungman, 13, from Shiloh, IL. She uses a yellow truck to hold an arsenal of snowbals. She only fires one before her cousin Zach Curie, from Paradise/Catonsville, ambushes her from stage right. Sherri Currie’s sister Angie Roustio brought her family from Independence, MO, to Paradise to [...]
TRYOUTS
I wrote a story about baseball tryouts. http://explorehoward.com/sports/60478/making-team/ (staff photo by Matt Roth) The time a catcher takes to throw from a crouched position to second base can keep fast runners off the base path and from scoring position. Returning sophomore Shane Davidson shows off his arm while being timed by coaches to see how [...]