Some years, St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone without me donning as much as a shamrock My family is Irish—but also English, German and a mix of other things that 23andMe seems to be continually updating in reports to my sister. Growing up, we always indulged in the great …
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Getting Kids Involved in Elections
Getting kids involved in elections can happen without anxiety, says Marie Heath, an assistant professor of education at Loyola University Maryland. Indeed, kids can “shape the world they live in and make it better,” says Heath, who researches online and offline civic engagement. Believing they matter is what she hopes …
Read More »Kids and Politics
After the contentious 2016 elections, every one of Alison Bomba’s clients brought up the topic of politics and how fearful it made them. Bomba is a Frederick-based psychologist who specializes in child and adolescent anxiety — the clients who were feeling so overwhelmed were actually kids. “It came up in …
Read More »A ‘Superstar’ rock concert
I am going to have to agree with Judas: The new Broadway staging of “Jesus Christ Superstar” is like a rock concert inside of a play, with break out dance concerts throughout and a fair bit of glitter and gold. This is how the show, which is celebrating its 50th …
Read More »Date Night: ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
Two days before Thanksgiving, a snowstorm descended on Denver, Colorado as actor James Delisco Beeks prepared to sing. The cast of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” a Broadway production that arrives in Baltimore next week, performed in the Mile High City throughout that snowy week. They hunkered down, and so did Beeks. …
Read More »Hammer Time
The doors opened at 6 for Canton Ace Hardware’s 6th Annual Ladies’ Night. But Monica Baker and Betsy Laucks, both of Upper Fells Point, arrived at 4:40 to be the first in a line of 100 eager shoppers. Nearly all were women, with a stray male or two trying not …
Read More »Road Test
I am car shopping, which is both exciting and nerve wracking. In my household are one teenager and one college student. Hence, the mixed emotions. I am looking at cars for them, so safety is key. But so is park-ability. We live in a rowhouse community that provides every driver’s …
Read More »Get Poked: Flu Season Is Here
October is the first month of flu season, that wonderful germ-filled time that stretches until May, but peaks between December and February here in Maryland. Pass us a Kleenex, please. So far, more than a dozen cases have been reported in the state, says Darcy McCarty, a senior practice manager …
Read More »Can We Really Afford College?
It’s no wonder this wisdom is imparted when one considers that the average cost of a private university in the U.S. is $44,551 per year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In a 10-year period, that price increased by 24 percent, and that was after inflation adjustments. And …
Read More »Still At It
We are two weeks into the school year and already each of my children has dealt with a situation of gun violence. For my oldest, it happened just before she returned to college at Temple University in Philadelphia. Police serving a warrant for drug crimes near Temple’s hospital ran up …
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