Newly released Buoyant: What Held Us Up When Our Bodies Let Us Down, is a success — judging by orders we've received from 27 states and...

The following piece, an appreciation of Martha Lee Benz, appeared in the October 7-14 issue of Bay Weekly (www.BayWeekly.com), which I...

Calvert County history devotees gathered at Jefferson Patterson Park recently saw up close why Carol McCabe Booker is winning praise for...

(I wrote this column in Bay Weekly, the newspaper I co-founded, on the morning after 9/11.) Like all else each of us will do in the...

Booker’s latest book, Cove Point on the Chesapeake: The Beacon, the Bay, and the Dream, released this week, tells of the heroes,...

Delve into a book of essays with something for all in the Calvert Library’s One Book hosting featuring Ross Gay’s fast-seller Book of...

Bay Weekly, the newspaper I started some three decades ago, has allowed me to return to write a farewell to Gerald Donovan, long-time...

In her newly published book, My Date With an Oyster and Other Stories of a D.C. Girl Discovering Chesapeake Country, M.L. Faunce captures...

She had national credentials, having marshaled forces to pass the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, aimed at repairing...

A lot is being written about Walter Mondale, who died, on April 19, at 93, in Minnesota, the hub of a lot of bad news. As Jimmy Carter’s...

One of early 20th century's finest adventure and detective fiction authors wrote in Calvert County, branching out to New York, London and...

In the UK, 773 libraries have closed since 2010 due to austerity. British writer Miriam Belanescue tells us the stakes. The Library...

I made my first trip to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore in San Francisco nearly 20 years ago on a mission: I wanted to see...

I thought it curious a while back when I looked up from a table where I was signing books and there was Senate President Mike Miller,...

Is there a book calling you? Mine, a volume so weighty it threatens to cripple the cat if it tumbles from the bedside table, is Infinite...

At the dawn of 2021, where is your inspiration coming from? Books? Music? From elsewhere in our culture? We'd like to hear from you...

Prescriptions for loneliness can be hard to fill. Christmas is a hard time to find a kitty but Bill was dogged. He should have known...

Chesapeake Bay is the lifeblood of a region and a muse for many writers who live along its shores. It’s been the venue for adventure and...

It's not a book, but I've been considering writing one based on my series of stories running since Thanksgiving in a climate project at...

I am taking longer decorating for Christmas in these trying times, touching the ornaments with reverie as I release them from their...