Blog Roundup: Bethesda Literary Festival, Spring Allergies

What's going around - Spring allergies

Ah, spring. The sun shines, the birds chirp, and people everywhere sneeze and cough from allergies. Spring is usually the time when people with allergies suffer the most. Springtime allergies can take a toll on both adults and children and can put a damper on an otherwise much anticipated change of seasons.

What are allergies?

Finalists Announed in Bethesda Literary Festival Essay and Short Story Contest

Finalists have been selected in the Bethesda Literary Festival’s Essay and Short Story Contests. Bethesda Urban Partnership and Bethesda Magazinepartnered to invite adults ages 18 and over and high school students (grades 9-12) to enter a 500-word essay or a 4,000-word short story. Finalists were selected from more than 400 submissions.

Latest from the Governor: We’re Committed to Victims’ Families

In Maryland, we focus on the policies that work to drive down crime, and together with the men and women of law enforcement, we’ve driven down violent crime to three-decade lows. We did this by focusing on things that work, and by identifying things that don’t work and eliminating them. The death penalty doesn’t reduce violent crime, and it’s expensive. That’s why, this session, we came together to eliminate the death penalty and replace it with life without parole.

Status update - how is that whole chillin' out thing going?

In a blog post I wrote about 18 months ago chastising myself for giving in to the youth soccer hype, I promised the following:

• I will stop coaching from the sidelines and during the car ride home.
• I will stop groaning at a goal against or other silly mistakes.
• I will let parent politics be. If you believe the grass is greener elsewhere, best of luck - life will go on.

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