Previously published in Frederick Magazine. Walking through a forest of trees that shelters an aerial park above my head, I feel like a member of the Swiss Family Robinson clan, marooned on a secluded jungle island. Ropes dangle from 50 feet up. Zip lines hang like hammocks between trees. An occasional “whoop” floats down from [...]
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Previously published in Frederick Magazine. Follow the sound of the whistle across the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks, over the tinkling stream that runs under the white trestle bridge and back in time to your destination: Winderbourne is waiting. The pink, Queen Anne–style mansion with deep rose–colored trim and shutters offers [...]
Previously published in Montgomery Life. Blues and soul musician Patricia Reese has covered a lot of territory as a musician in the DC area. Winner of the 2009 Washington Area Music Association Album of the Year (WAMMIES) for her third and most recent album “Strong Medicine,” she performed at Strathmore’s Tribute to Woodstock’s 40th Anniversary, [...]
Previously published in The Source. February 24, 2010 Demita Odom remembers standing in the doorway screaming on a Sunday afternoon in 1957 as she watched her mother drive away. “I didn’t understand what was happening,” Odom describes. “One minute I was living with them and the next my mother and my baby brother had left.” [...]
Previously published in Frederick Magazine. Green Rides Tired of walking through the Downtown heat but loathe to add more automobile emissions to this summer’s poor air quality? Try Macfawn’s Green Rides, offering human-powered transportation through the Historic district and Baker Park. Just text your location to their number and one of their 12 pedicabs will [...]
Previously published in The Source January 20, 2010 “Will I be able to get a job with this degree?” This was the question Meredith Schultz asked Dr. Mitchell in 2005. A public policy major, she wanted to switch to political theory, but wondered if starting the political theory track was a practical step for any [...]
Previously published in The Source. February 17, 2010 Sex is a good thing, comedian and pro-abstinence youth speaker Keith Deltano tells audiences. “But fire is a good thing, in the fireplace. Put it on your couch–PHOOMPH!!–you got problems.” For years, organizations promoting “safe sex” have argued that studies and speakers, like Deltano, are misleading people [...]
Previously published in The Source. February 3, 2010 The meanings of words change over time. Feeling gay doesn’t mean being happy about a recent promotion anymore. ”Liberal” now means more government – not less. And feminism, though once associated with bra-burning and anti-male sentiments, has recently taken a newer, more positive definition through the movement [...]
Previously published in The Source. January 27, 2010 “I love you so much, I will even marry you.” Many at Patrick Henry College would consider this a strange phrase to say to someone they are in love with. Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book, Committed, does not necessarily agree with the common convention that love equals marriage. [...]