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Summer’s Best Combos

What I’ll be eating this Buy Local Week

Sandra Olivetti Martin
In high Maryland summer, buying local is no challenge. Rain and sun, heat and humidity make the vegetable kingdom grow like it will devour tomorrow. Fields and farm markets are fecund with foods you’ve not tasted fresh since last fall. Corn, cucumbers, cantaloupe, peaches, peppers, squash, tomatoes and watermelon are ready or ripening.     If I were doing the naming, I’d call Maryland’s sixth annual Buy Local Challenge the Buy Local Opportunity.
article –   –  by Sandra Olivetti Martin  – 7/18/13

Five Workday Cures for Your Summertime Blues

These doses of summer fun, taken daily, will cure even the deepest shades of summertime blues

I’m gonna raise a fuss, I’m gonna raise a holler About a workin’ all summer just to try to earn a dollar … Every time I call my baby, and try to get a date My boss says, ‘No dice son, you gotta work late’ … Sometimes I wonder what I’m a gonna do But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues. –Eddie Cochran  
article –   –  by  – 7/4/13

Lighting Up the Night

Your Fireworks Guide

Ashley Brotherton
Saturday June 29   The Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department kicks off the festivities. Enjoy live music and carnival rides through the afternoon. Then find a seat for the fireworks at dusk. Carnival starts at 6pm; fireworks at 9pm at Fire Department, 24801 Three Notch Rd., St. Mary’s County: 240-9257863: www.hwvfd7.com.
article –   –  by Ashley Brotherton  – 6/27/13

It Takes Big Bucks to Make Big Bangs

We spend millions ­celebrating our Independence

Ashley Brotherton
In a time when money is tight, we celebrate the nation’s founding with an-over-the-top party.     The American tradition of lighting fuses to make colorful explosions in the sky started on the day the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence: July 4, 1776.     The day before, July 3, founding father John Adams wrote to his wife, “the day will be most memorable in the history of America … It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations.”
article –   –  by Ashley Brotherton  – 6/27/13

Getting into the Great Outdoors

Whether you’re roughing it at a primitive camp site or pitching a tent in your own back yard, any time spent outdoors with family is the best.

Heather Boughey
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity. –John Muir

article –   –  by Heather Boughey  – 6/20/13

Discover a Bay Beach

There’s no better way to know the Chesapeake

Michelle Steel
Bay beaches are tucked away in coves throughout Chesapeake Country. With tides and waves, soft sand, salty air and cooling breezes, they’re a nature lover’s paradise.     Our beaches are sown by the Bay with fascinating finds: shells, stones, driftwood, sea-glass frosted and smoothed by years of ocean tossing and tumbling. If your beach is within the range of Calvert Cliffs, Miocene fossils make for exciting and rare treasure finds.
article –   –  by Michelle Steel  – 6/6/13

How I Met Your Father

Our match was made, not born

Sandra Lee Anderson
“Count these records,” said Charlie after introductions.     The year was 1969. The records were five-inch vinyl-printed cardboard squares recorded by our candidate in the Northern Virginia district where I lived with my parents. The square records would be dropped off at every house to deliver his campaign message.     Hundreds were loose in each big three-foot-square box. I started counting. I was fairly nimble at age 26, but the older lady next to me was faster.
article –   –  by Sandra Lee Anderson  – 2/14/13

How to Fall in Love with Ms or Mr. Right

Good news: You can upgrade your love template

Dr. Darlene Treese
People seem friendlier. Colors are brighter. Food tastes better. The world is transformed with shimmering newness.     What causes the rush of good feeling we call romantic love?
article –   –  by Dr. Darlene Treese  – 2/14/13

Bay Weekly’s Annual Groundhog’s Guide to the Movies

13 Films to Inspire 2013

Punxsutawney Phil has prognosticated an early spring, but it doesn’t feel like spring in Chesapeake Country. Like many a cold-hating human, Bay Weekly’s movie-loving groundhog Chesapeake Chuck remains hiding in his burrow.
article –   –  by  – 2/7/13

Taking the Leap

The greatest risk would be to pass up the chance to do something that will make you happy

Margaret Tearman
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. –Alan Alda
article –   –  by Margaret Tearman  – 1/3/13
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