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My daughter wanted a mostly camp-free summer and I have granted her that wish—one week of art camp (which she requested) will be her only ca...

Earlier this summer I visited my hometown of Moravian Falls, N.C., and discovered it has become a point of pilgrimage—some newcomer ministe...

The Onion's AV Club is posting a two-part series on locations in Baltimore used in The Wire . Given my reluctance to visit Baltimore (...

A couple of years ago I read an article about Karen Zacarías , a local playwright and mother of three, who confessed that she was only able ...

My spouse was watching a movie a few weeks ago (on the small TV in the kitchen that we use when washing the dishes), in which a group of te...

"As a writer, director and producer, Leonard Stern was a legendary (noun) in show business. He had an (adjective) career that took him...

I haven't written much in the last couple of weeks because I've been spending all my free time trying to create a garden (or a few ...

I met Pam Smallcomb at a SCBWI -sponsored ABC (Author Book Club) event in March and liked her good humor and practical advice so much, I as...

As I confessed in a post a while ago, I've never made it entirely through James Joyce's Ulysses . After a few futile attempts to ge...

As I confessed in an earlier post , I am slightly terrified of Baltimore, based on its fictional portrayal in David Simon's TV shows. Y...