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Feeling Lonely Continued…Vegan Lifestyle
Being vegan for three years was another factor in my husband and I becoming and feeling more and more isolated. We are no longer vegan, but we were exclusively vegan for three years. Veganism was something that came about very spontaneously. We had never been vegetarians. I never thought too much, or at least not …
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Still Feeling Alone
I believe my roots and family of origin have something to do with my feeling of not always belonging. Sometimes I feel separate from people around me because my father was an immigrant to this country and is not highly educated. My mother did graduate from high school, never worked outside of the home. This…
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Feeling Alone Sometimes Continued…
The choices we make along the way factor into whether we feel alone or part of a group. I would advise parents, after my own personal experience, to think closely about where they send their kids to school. We chose to send our kids to a charter school outside of our neighborhood. So every day…
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Feeling Alone Sometimes
It feels like time to write about being an introvert and being lonely. I’ll have to do some more research as to what is behind feeling lonely or how people experience loneliness. I guess you could also say I’m a loner and, in many ways, I love it while at the same time I feel…
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Another Old South Baltimore Essay – Trains
Trains and railroads are a part of life in South Baltimore. No matter where you are on the peninsula, you are never far from the tracks and the sound of the horns. A railroad loop bound the Locust Point neighborhood at the far eastern part of the peninsula like a belt. The tracks served a…
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Songwriting
Bmore Christmas Verse: These holiday streets have salt boxes in the corner and that domino sugar sign glow. ‘Cuz In Baltimore, we’ve got the Natty Bohohoho Old Charm City can be too cold for crabs and too warm for snow. On these Holliday streets, some of the formstone’s gone brick But the neighborhoods all stay…
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A Look Back In Time
This is an excerpt from an old essay I wrote in 2013 about moving to my new neighborhood, Locust Point, in Baltimore City…. The McHenry Point neighborhood was bordered by brush, weeds and wildflowers of the same genus and species that I used to play with as a child. Loren would be able to pick…
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Friluftsliv Friday
I am trying to live a life more influenced by the Nordic nature-inspired way of life of “Friluftslivl” and today was no exception. It’s hard for me to escape to nature and my daily life as a city dweller provides only a few natural respites from which to choose. Enter my employer, a large provider…
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A Little Bit Nordy
I was recently inspired by the book “The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day” by Linda Åkeson McGurk to reconnect with nature and my childhood which was largely shaped by proximity to nature. I was anxious to try a new way of being and the book spoke to…