What did you inherit from your father?         Our Father’s Day question makes a readable story, as you’ll find. Can you resist answering it yourself? Digging, for better or worse, into the roots from which you’ve grown?     When I went digging, I heard my father ask me What’s cooking on Duval Street?     It was a joke because, at four or five, the biggest action I was likely to find on the main street of the...

Halloween is known for ghosts and spirits, but it’s this time of year I expect poltergeists smashing onto the scene to upset the order of things. Washers spin like whirling dervishes, cups and spoons and cartons of cream go missing, auto windows and windshield wipers stick motionless.     Naturally, that’s the time we chose for Bay Weekly to move our office.     The transfer was swift and sweet; Run Moving & Storage had our boxes swathed in tape...

The smell of barbecue rising from the grills of 41 competing Kansas City Barbecue Society teams drew 12,000 people to Annapolis for Parole Rotary Club’s second annual Naptown barBAYq Contest and Music Festival.     A good time was had by all. The weather was fine. Families ate well and extended their fun with live music on two stages, activities for all ages, arts and crafts vendors and cooking demonstrations. Chefs earned competition points and renown for their slow-...

How does your garden grow?         Ours is behaving like it’s on steroids this prodigal summer so eager to outdo the season of Barbara Kingsolver’s eponymous book. We’re picking daily, for our greens — arugula, cabbage, lettuces, mustard and Swiss chard, some from very late plantings last year — are a forest and bolt for the sky when we turn our backs.     My herbs want to take over the earth. We’re eating a...