I'm At The Age Most People Are

I Think Baltimore Suffers From Nostalgia And It Keeps Us From Being Honest In Talking About What Really Happened Here. A Place Doesn't Have To Be Perfect To Be Beloved, And I Love This City And I Love It Better For Seeing Its Flaws.

We Become Comfortable Saying That There's Nothing New, And Then Something Like Malarky Comes Along, Which Is New And Old And Different And Familiar, But Ultimately Itself, Comfortable In Its Own Skin, Wise And Smart And Crazy-sexy Or Maybe Sexy-crazy-well, You Just Have To Read It To Understand. It's A Novel That Sets Its Own Course, Sure And Steady, Even When It Seems Like It Might Be About To Go Over The Edge Of The World.

Anyone Can Love A Perfect Place. Loving Baltimore Takes Some Resilience.

As For Music, My Tastes Are Eclectic. Elvis Costello Is My All-time Favorite. I Listen To A Lot Of Jazz, Primarily The Great Female Vocalists, And I Am Very Fond Of The Late Cabaret Singer Nancy Lamott.

There's A Serendipity To Real Life That The Internet Can't Duplicate. Do You Use The Library? For Anything? Well, Sometimes You End Up Picking Up The Book Next To The One You Were Looking For, And It's That Book That Changes Your Life.