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Make 2016 a Year of Wellness

Bay Weekly's Health Guide provides expert tips for you (and your animal companions)

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– by – 1/7/16

The Sinister Castle

The view was breathtaking — until the sun set, leaving us alone with a guide we didn’t know

Marilyn Lee Recknor

It was late afternoon when I caught up with Sharon in the hotel bar. She was the roommate assigned to me by the travel company that ran my 1974 trip to Spain and Portugal. A teacher from New Jersey, she was older than me by 15 years, and, I thought, more worldly wise. She was chatting with a man whom she introduced as Robert, a fellow American. “He’s an archeologist,” she told me. “He’s working on an old castle that’s not yet open to the public. Want to ride out with us and take a look?”

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– by Marilyn Lee Recknor – 10/22/15

The Black Cat

It was a school night when I awoke from a deep sleep to my sister’s piercing cry

Melissa Driscoll Krol

Mother was away for schooling and Daddy was in charge. He was doing pretty well until the night of the attack. It was a school night when I awoke from a deep sleep to my older sister Heather’s piercing cry. Our rooms were adjacent and I heard everything: the banging, the fighting, the blood-curdling screams. My sister and I weren’t the best of friends, but I had never wanted anything bad to happen to her. “Daddeee!” I heard her shriek.

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– by Melissa Driscoll Krol – 10/22/15

Foreign Exchange

22, alone and 4,500 miles from home

Leigh Glenn

Imagine her: 22, attractive, alone, more than 4,500 miles from home. In a country whose native language is not hers. In a city of five million. On a Metro nearing midnight.

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– by Leigh Glenn – 10/22/15

The Seance

Tapping into the Ouija board like a phone line to ghosts

Jane C. Elkin

One month before college graduation with a blank future looming, I accepted a coworker’s invitation to a séance. She made it sound like such a good idea. “A ghost saved my cousin’s life,” Barb insisted. “She warned him against a cross-country bike trip where his friend was hit by a semi-truck two days into the journey.” She said that ghosts were omnipresent and omniscient. They were trapped souls looking for resolution to their own problems, tapping into the Ouija board like a phone line.

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– by Jane C. Elkin – 10/22/15

The Intruders

The loudness of their voices filled the darkness of the sleeping house — A memoir circa 1951

Sandra Olivetti Martin

The house breathed noisily around the sleeping girl and dog. This house was too new for ghosts to have gathered, but floors creaked and walls settled in stealthy metabolism. Blown by the whirring fan, summer-light white eyelet curtains sucked the screens. Outside in the big dark beyond the open windows, cicadas shrilled. When a breeze stirred, enclosing junipers ran their green fingers down the screens’ outer skin.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 10/22/15

Travels with a Good Book

Bay Weekly’s Summer Reading Guide

A good book can take us farther than an airplane, keep us otherwise occupied longer than a week away from home and cost far less than any vacation. True, I’d rather be reading my book on a sandy beach with an ocean breeze. But even on my own back deck, lolling my cushy birthday chaise, a good book, a summer’s day and a cool drink make a vacation. In that spirit, the Bay Weekly family of readers offers its annual summer reading special.

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Summer Reading Guide

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– by – 6/25/15

Last-Minute Camp Guide

Camps are filling up fast. But there’s still room ...

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– by – 5/14/15

Spring Home & Garden Guide

Renewal is the irresistible urge of spring, reaching from the ground up into our homes and hearts.
   It’s time to make some changes. But unless you bring home some new ideas, you’ll be recycling the same old stuff.
   In the nick of time, here’s Bay Weekly’s 2015 Home and Garden Guide, bringing you 28 partners to inspire and assist your renewal.

All the Tools Your Inner Artist Needs Are you a DIY sort of person? Do you need supplies and inspiration for your creative projects? Art Things, Inc. in West Annapolis is a place you should explore.

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– by – 4/2/15

Bay Weekly's 2015 Summer Camp Guide

Greater Annapolis

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– by – 3/5/15