Tis the season for tree lightings and shopping sprees! Mark your calendar, round up a few friends, and experience the magic of the holidays at these festive outings in Howard County: Yuletide Festival Weekends— Savage Mill and Historic Savage Fill your weekends with Yuletide Festival fun starting November 27th and running through December 19th. Don’t […]
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1 River, 3 Brothers, 250 Years!
History is alive this year in Ellicott City, Maryland as it celebrates its Sestercentennial anniversary! It was 250 years ago that the Ellicotts, a Quaker family from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, came to the Patapsco River Valley to harness the river’s power and establish a center for industry and commerce.
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Holiday 2022
In the Summer 2022 issue of OutLook by the Bay, learn about artisan frozen treats from Mexico, the town of Crisfield on the Eastern Shore, hiking adventures in the region, and more!
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Hospice chaplains walk into a culture as intimate strangers
Knocking on the door of a patient’s home as a hospice chaplain is humbling. Behind that door are the deepest moments in the life of a dying person. Other types of chaplains walk into a hospital room, barracks, or workplace. Hospice chaplains walk into a patient’s home and are immediately immersed in a world that […]
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Understanding dementia helps volunteers better care for patients
It was the mood swings that startled Cathleen Rawlings the most. As her mother’s dementia progressed, her mother would become very angry and lash out. “I think that was surprising to me,” Rawlings said. “She’s not going to just be this cute little old lady who says funny things.” As many families know, caring for […]
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Fall 2022
In the Summer 2022 issue of OutLook by the Bay, learn about artisan frozen treats from Mexico, the town of Crisfield on the Eastern Shore, hiking adventures in the region, and more!
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Summer 2022
In the Summer 2022 issue of OutLook by the Bay, learn about artisan frozen treats from Mexico, the town of Crisfield on the Eastern Shore, hiking adventures in the region, and more!
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Book review: Dune
DuneBy Frank HerbertAce; Media tie-in edition, 2021 (Original, 1965) Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction and fantasy novel Dune is the story of Paul Atreides, heir to a dukedom on the planet called Arrakis. But young Paul soon learns that not everything is as straightforward as it seems to be — or as he might think […]
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Book review: Wild women of Maryland: Grit and Gumption in the Free State
WILD WOMEN OF MARYLAND: GRIT AND GUMPTION IN THE FREE STATEBy Lauren R. SilbermanThe History Press (2015) Many women who came of age before the 1970s may have felt they had few options in life. They could be teachers, nurses, secretaries, cashiers, housewives, and the like. This well-researched volume focusing on many unusual Maryland women […]
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Book review: The Inn Boonsboro Collection
THE INN BOONSBORO COLLECTION: THE NEXT ALWAYSTHE LAST BOYFRIENDTHE PERFECT HOPEBy Nora RobertsPutnam Trade (2011-2012) It’s been a long decade since bestselling novelist Nora Roberts penned her intriguing Inn Boonsboro Trilogy. The trilogy is a clever series of character-driven plots that continue through all three books: The Next Always, The Last Boyfriend, and The Perfect Hope. Roberts […]
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Seller strategies in a pre-recession market
By Reid Buckley You’ve waited this long to sell your home and now the real estate market is softening. The good news is that real estate has had unimaginable appreciation in the past two years. The even better news is that you have a new baseline of value, and real estate is an asset class […]
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Summertime downers: Prevention and treatment of sunburn, bug bites and poison ivy
Summertime: A time for contentment, relaxation and adventure. Camping, hiking, picnicking, sunbathing, whatever your outdoor passion, enjoy it to the fullest! However, while you’re frolicking in the sunshine, be mindful of a few annoying problems that can put a crimp in your summertime cheer, namely, sunburn, insect bites, and poison ivy. Of course you’re ahead […]
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There’s no fool like a raspberry fool: A historic confection with an Annapolis connection
When it comes to sweet confections, no dessert has a more misleading name than a fool, a cream-based confection that can be documented within the British culinary lexicon to as early as the late sixteenth century. One version of a fool is known to have been served by Mrs. Frances Loockerman who lived in the […]
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Meditation elevator speech
I enjoy conceptualizing meditation in three ways. There is the spiritual path, the psychological path and the career or professional path. The practice is the same for all three paths, but our cognitive stance changes.
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Hiking adventures from the mountains to the sea
Thomas Jefferson was filled with awe as he looked down upon the beauty of the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. His view was from the Maryland Heights several hundred feet above the rivers. Our third president described the scene he saw as “perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature.“ The Piedmont […]
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Disc golf:A sport for the rest of us
“Come on, guys! The next one’s up ahead!” My five-year-old nephew Charlie ran across a wooden bridge spanning a babbling brook. The park was filled with the smell of pine trees and campfires, taking me straight back to childhood. Farther downhill, the lake’s waters lapped at its mossy shores as fishermen leisurely cast lures into […]
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Town of Crisfield wraps hardship with hope
“Hurricane” Hazel tells her best stories while she’s picking crabs. The 83-year-old great-grandmother holds the world record for crab picking: 5.58 pounds in 20 minutes. A longtime professional crab picker, she’ll tell you her secret: “I can look at you, and talk to you, and I don’t even have to watch what I’m picking,” she […]
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Letter from ‘The Other Bay’
Dear Marylanders, I don’t know about you, but I’m afraid to fly. My fear started long before the pandemic and is, I realize, highly irrational. But there’s little I can do to calm myself when I’m convinced that whenever I hear a noise we’re going to plummet from the sky. So I take the train […]
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Backyard bocce is easy and fun
In the late afternoon, when the summer heat has broken for the day, but the sun has not disappeared for the night, four people step into a backyard, their favorite beverage in hand, and select two matching wooden balls out of a colorful collection of eight. A player picks up a small white ball, about […]
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Paddling the historic Corsica River
By Ellen Moyer If only they could talk, Maryland’s 42 Rivers have stories to tell about our early history. The Corsica River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is one of the state’s historic rivers. The Corsica is off the Chester River, that is off the Chesapeake Bay, home of the drowned Susquehanna River that may be […]