When we moved into to an old post office next door to St. Michael Ukrain­ian Ortho­dox Church on East­ern Avenue, the church build­ing was only a con­crete slab and a steel skele­ton.
My old­est son, a baby at the time, slept soundly through the con­struc­tion noise out­side his bed­room win­dow. We watched the build­ing grow over […]

“I die with the con­vic­tion, held since 1968 and Catonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the Earth; to mine for them, man­u­fac­ture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human fam­ily, and the Earth itself …” — Philip Berri­gan, 2002.
It took me five years to write A People’s His­tory of […]

Early in the pre-dawn morn­ing of Jan­u­ary 19, 2009, my son, Phillip, and I saw the Poe Toaster, the per­son who leaves cognac and three roses at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.
Not only saw him, but we talked with him. And had our pic­ture taken with him.
But we didn’t know it at the time. Only […]

As view­ers of Food Net­works’ Ace of Cakes know, pro­duc­ing the con­fec­tions of Charm City Cakes is likely to involve power tools and a blow torch. Detroit native Jef­frey Adam “Duff” Gold­man, 35, who grad­u­ated from Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land Bal­ti­more County and the Culi­nary Insti­tute of Amer­ica, leads a cre­ative group mak­ing cakes that strain […]

Although I’ve been aware of the Gwynns Falls Trail for some time, only recently have I begun explor­ing its con­tours in earnest. Trav­el­ing its 15-mile length is rewarded by a tour through Baltimore’s hid­den nat­ural resources and the cra­dle of the city’s indus­trial ori­gins.
From the trail­head in his­toric Franklin­town, on the city’s west side, the […]

Before you judge me, consider:

I’m not break­ing any law
I’m pro­vid­ing a ser­vice to peo­ple in need
It’s green
Frankly, we could use the money

When I read about the Glen Burnie fam­ily that stored their 83-year-old grandmother’s dead body in a freezer, my first response was shock. And then neces­sity met opportunity.

Crav­ing a taste of Bal­ti­more but con­founded by the cruel fate of geog­ra­phy? Thanks to the mir­a­cle of overnight ship­ping, your taste buds could be in for a treat.