Beluthahatchie

Just as Sydney pressed Rabbit Hill into my hands when she found out I never read it, so I pressed Little Toot into her hands when she said...

The next time a music buff mentions the Rolling Stones' remarkable 44-year history as a band, say, "Ah, that's nothing. How a...

Saturday, Sydney and I attended -- and much enjoyed -- the first Appalachian Festival at Frostburg State University. As much of it took pla...

Sydney's mother, Fran Bowling, and Sydney's Aunt Charlotte Sartin both raise monarch butterfies , a good habit they acquired in the ...

This last shot wouldn't fit in the previous post, but I wanted to show everyone that when we left it, the toad was safe and resting up f...

Sunday we went to Sydney's family reunion on her mother's side, the Staffords and Stafford descendants, which is held in the Town Pa...

Normally only my byline appears at eTrucker.com , but now I'm a photo illustration . Sydney was behind the camera. I was so "in c...

Sunday night, in my room at the Hampton Inn nearest the Baltimore airport, I reached inside my toiletries bag and found that my shampoo had ...

I'm unusual among Marylanders in that I am not running for the U.S. Senate this year. According to the sample primary ballots in today...

In a recent interview with the Florida Baptist Witness ("Publishing Good News since 1884"), U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla., ...

Sydney and I had a wonderful time Sunday afternoon tramping around Cranesville Swamp in neighboring Garrett County, in far western Maryland...

In reply to Mr. Cavin's comment below, I'll happily shake on Snakes on a Plane being a flop but not a bomb , a distinction I admi...

Mr. Cavin writes: Based on information I read at The New York Times, I was under the impression that Snakes on a Plane was reaping the nor...

Two guys in an athletic facility: "Do you get Martin Luther King Day off?" "That ain't a real holiday. Now, if we had a...

Before the movie Snakes on a Plane opened, my hero F. Brett Cox wondered aloud: It'll be interesting to see how the movie does after al...

I laughed loudly at this Arthur D. Hlavaty post , and was only mildly ashamed. Christopher Rowe , meanwhile, is right in remembering that in...

Trent Hergenrader writes, in part: This is almost on-topic, but German Chocolate Cake gets its name from the type of chocolate (German...

I was taken aback by Roald Dahl’s memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood , but I suppose I shouldn’t have been; this is the author of Switch Bitch ,...

Somewhere upstream, I declared that the G in "german measles" ought to be lowercased, since it means german as in "germane,...