December 2012

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The Year’s Last Rockfish Hoorah

Rockfish are biting, and you’ve got until December 15 to catch them

As December opened, we’d dropped anchor off the Hackett’s can in 35 feet of water. I set up the chum bag off our stern and had cut some pieces of fresh alewife, when suddenly everything started going right — and wrong — at the same time.

article – Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle

– by Dennis Doyle – 12/6/12

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This Week’s Creature Feature ... Tundra Swans Arrive

These long-distance travelers migrate from the Arctic for our mild winters

The swans have landed. In November, tundra swans succeed osprey as Chesapeake Country’s big new birds. The snow-white swans average four feet in length and weigh between 13 to 20 pounds.

article – Creature Feature

– by Michelle Steel – 12/6/12

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All Lined Up In a Row

Three planets and the moon greet the dawn

The waning crescent moon rises around midnight at week’s end and is high in the south come dawn. By the weekend, it rises in the wee hours of the night. Look for it just one degree below blue-white Spica before dawn Sunday. The next morning the moon rises later and is just a few degrees away from golden Saturn. Tuesday it is a thin crescent in the east, just two degrees below Venus.

article – Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll

– by J. Alex Knoll – 12/6/12

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We All Need Traditions

Children of the revolutions, we make them out of bits and pieces

After the war was over, the Founding Fathers must have been at loose ends. Winning your independence from the past is one thing. Creating a future from scratch is entirely another. Like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution’s laid out a map of lofty principles. But if every step of daily life had to be invented anew to conform to those principles, revolutionary life would have been very existential.

article – Letter from the Editor

– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 12/6/12

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Silver Linings Playbook

Thank your lucky stars that your friends and family don’t resemble the people in

Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper: Hit and Run) is going through a rough patch. An undiagnosed manic-depressive most of his life, Pat got his diagnosis when he nearly beat the life out of his cheating wife’s lover. To get beyond this violent outburst, he is remanded to a mental institution. Pat is more interested in getting his wife back — and getting her to lift her restraining order — than getting better. Instead of pills and therapy, Pat decides he needs to get in shape and improve his attitude.