Regulars (Bay Reflections)

Article - Bay Reflections; by Janice Lynch Schuster - 5/11/17

Lessons On an Empty Nest

Building a safe place to launch lives

My youngest daughter, Alyson, recently graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in politics and government and a part-time job with a non-profit in D.C. — plus hopes and plans for changing the world. How had this happened, I wondered, how had time tracked me down and pushed me along, insisting that I move it, move it, ready or not?
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Article - Bay Reflections; by Joe Browder - 9/29/16

In the Beginning: Bay Reflection from Vol. I No 1

Often our best learning comes from questions rather than from answers, from wondering about seemingly small details or great mysteries …

The Bay. When said and heard that way, the words mean more than a dictionary’s definition, more than a body of water, sheltered somehow from a larger lake or sea. The Bay means that a person knows about a special place.
This awareness is a gift to the people who have it, a relationship to the place and to other people who share the knowledge. The more we learn, from the Bay and from Bay people, the more valuable the gift becomes.
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Article - Fishing; , Bay Reflections; by Diane Knaus - 6/16/16

Let’s Go Fishing!

A Father’s Day memory

Dad said let’s go fishing when Mother asked what he wanted to do on Father’s Day.
He bought fresh fishing supplies the day before. We also packed a lunch because we were going to get up early.
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Article - Bay Reflections; 5/5/16

Better than Hallmark

Poems for our mothers

What to say to your mother (or wife) on Mother’s Day? If your own words fail you, the anonymously crafted greeting card message will save you. If only you were a poet, you would have the right words. What would those words be?
That’s what Bay Weekly asked eight Chesapeake poets this Mother’s Day.
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Article - Bay Reflections; by Diane Knaus - 4/28/16

Nostalgia

Memories of boats little and big

On a robust early morning in 1958, I jumped into Chesapeake Country. We lived in Baltimore, but my father had bought a summer place in Chelsea Beach on Mill Creek. For the second year, I woke to hear the birds chattering away.
This day, I planned to take our 12-foot runabout across the Magothy River to see my friend at her uncle’s large log cabin.
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Article - Bay Reflections; by Sonia Linebaugh - 6/1/95

Everyday Affairs

Bay Reflections

I was walking with friends along the a suburban Wheaton street when someone said, “What’s that?”
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Article - Bay Reflections; by Michael White - 8/16/12

My Dog and I Are Creatures of Habit

Life on the Bay Can Be Exhausting

I rise early even on weekends, continuing the habit of a lifetime, look out and see the civil twilight and the promise of the sun. Over the flat water, dark blue now, like a sheet of glass, wisps of dark clouds with a hint of pink on the horizon in a sky of light blue. The day is already alive with morning sounds, distant traffic....

Article - Bay Reflections; by Allen Delaney - 3/24/11

Bend Over and Say Zzzzzz

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

As my doctor read through my records during my yearly physical, he exhaled a worrisome Hmmmmmmm. That’s never good when you’re visiting a doctor.
“Let’s see,” he said. “According to your chart you turned the big Five-Oh this year.”
To me, it sounded more like the big Five-Uh-oh.
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Article - Bay Reflections; by Leo Newberg - 9/16/10

A Pirate’s Protest

These beautiful days can set you free

I have spent my life much like the proverbial pirate looking at 40, wondering why I never quite fit into today’s society, when the truth of the matter has always been that I am far healthier and happier because I never bothered to change. Too often I find that there is a sad disconnect between people’s daily lives and the world in which they live.

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Article - Bay Reflections; by Ariel Martinez Brumbaugh - 6/17/10

Bay Reflections

My Father and the Slugs

My father was a patient man

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