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On Howard County Dads With Josh Benson

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I suggested Josh Benson and I meet at Uncle Julio’s to talk about the group he started last month that ‘s already a success, Howard County Dads (HCD). Uncle Julio’s is a large restaurant in downtown Columbia, but that place is undergoing so much change that, despite the restaurant’s size, it can be challenging to find. That’s especially true when the two people trying to find it are brand new (me, Colleen) and relatively new (Benson) to the area. With a couple phone calls and pinned locations sent to each other Benson and I managed to do it, however. I … Read more

The Maple Lawn Festival–Sundry Fun Under the Sun

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Colleen and our children, Jared, Rachel, and Joshua, say I tend to overthink things. When my wife would point this out, she’d say,  “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” as the semi-old saying goes, and we’d laugh. You would too, if you heard it in her Bronx accent and imitable tone. But to laugh as hard as I do when she says it, you’d probably have to be as in love with her now as you were the moment you laid eyes on her as she sat in the seventh row of Temple Emmanuel on the Upper East Side … Read more

The Howard County Farm Bureau and the Howard County Fair Association–What a Pair!

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“Such a long drive…” These four words came to me again and again during another vehicular hike down a long roadway, the first being the trip I took to Annap0lis to meet with State Senator Guy Guzzone (D-13). I’m a city slicker, after all, born and raised on the Island of Manhattan. There are long distances and commutes of all sorts there, to be sure, but they’re broken up by traffic lights, honking, strange looks from pedestrians, the aromas of whatever dining establishment you’re passing by, alternately crowded residential neighborhoods and even more crowded commercial ones, and the sensation of … Read more

Josh Tulkin: A Sandwich, a Tea, and a Lesson In Environmental Policy

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They say that olfaction, the sense of smell, is the most evocative of all. When a certain scent, fragrance, or odor descends upon you, the way it rips you from the present and deposits you back into your past can be almost disturbing in its power. So it was for me as I ambled down Maryland’s Route 1 in the rented Ford Focus I took to meet Josh Tulkin, Director of The Sierra Club Maryland Chapter (SCMC), at that organization’s headquarters in College Park, Maryland. The vaguely subway-ish aroma combined with that of frying food took me right back to … Read more

Guy Guzzone–Blue, Green, and Lots of Colors In Between

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Robert and I told our friends, PaCy (Paul and Lucy Steinberg), over what may have been a too-strong cup of coffee at the bakery in Greenspring Atrium that we wanted to know more about the neighboring county, Howard’s, politics as we consider making the area our new home. Lucy barely missed a beat as she put down her cup and said, “You have to talk to Guy Guzzone.” I repeated his name back to her, relishing its delightful, Italian-English prosody as I said I’d call his office the next day. I did some research on Guzzone and found that he’s … Read more

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