by admin | Feb 10, 2011 | News
Is it wrong to pity the groundhog? I spent my first few years on St. Peter’s Church Road learning to hate the hairy, low-slung varmints. I armed myself against them. I reacquainted myself with the art of shooting. My practice targets were printed with enemy...
by admin | Feb 3, 2011 | News
It’s not everybody’s cup of tea, but we happen to like living next to a cemetery. We don’t find it creepy or ghoulish to live in the shadow of grave markers. Death is a fact of life. Human beings have the merciful capacity to forget about their...
by admin | Jan 27, 2011 | News
Warning: the following column may cause itching of the scalp. Do not panic. This condition is known as “formication,” the feeling that your skin is covered with creepy-crawlies. It’s perfectly normal and can be treated by gentle scratching, or, if...
by admin | Jan 20, 2011 | News
One of the great pleasures of writing this column is getting emails from the residents of our fair county. I love to read your thoughts and ideas, which reach me at [email protected]. I maintain a website for my other writing, www.matthewolshan.com, which...
by admin | Jan 13, 2011 | News
I was twelve; I was on a field trip; I was climbing through the claustrophobic, pulse-pounding chambers of a two-story human heart. Sound familiar? I grew up in the city of the Smithsonians, but the best time I had in a museum when I was a kid was at the Franklin...
by admin | Jan 6, 2011 | News
“Look at your cool shadow!” Shana said, as our daughter teetered back and forth in the slanting afternoon sun. It was a cool shadow: a figure atop a single wheel, like one of those old typewriter erasers with a bristle brush on one end and a little rubber...
