Who can resist comfort food? Hot, starchy, stick-to-your-ribs meals that deliver a satisfaction no sandwich or pizza could ever match. Particularly now with the days as short as they get and temperatures that rarely leave the 40s. Karen York-Levine, founder of Personal Chefs of Columbia, thinks comfort food triggers an emotional as well as physical [...]
Archive for December, 2003
Comfort in the kitchen
Monday, December 8th, 2003Making adustments when college kids come home
Monday, December 8th, 2003For many parents with college-age children, holidays and summertime mean bleary eyes, fatigue and sleepless nights. Lying in bed with one eye open, parents can’t truly fall asleep until they hear that garage door cranking up or the key opening the front door. Not until they know that their almost grown son or daughter is [...]
Something for everyone on your holiday gift list
Monday, December 8th, 2003Movies are the perfect stocking-size gift, and this month’s releases promise to entertain everyone in the family from adventure-loving teens to train-loving toddlers. Throw in a healthy measure of Dr. Seuss, Hot Wheels and skeleton pirates, and they’ll be plenty to keep everyone busy long after the last gift is opened. “Pirates of the Caribbean: [...]
The ballots are back
Monday, December 8th, 2003Winners of the 2003 Family Favorites
Gifts of the season
Monday, December 8th, 2003Focusing on faith, not presents
How safe are students?
Monday, December 8th, 2003Schools up the ante on security
How SAFE are students?
Monday, December 8th, 2003With the recent news that several Baltimore County schools were on a list found in the car of the man charged in the last year’s sniper shootings, parents should be glad to know there are great strides being made to improve security at area schools. Following the Columbine High School shootings in 1999 and the [...]
Gifts of the season
Monday, December 8th, 2003Each year while they’re still wearing shorts and buying school supplies, the four Fritz children of Columbia begin their Christmas wish lists. “Whatever your heart desires” is the motto as the older children write out their requests and the younger ones cut pictures out of catalogs and make collages. When Halloween arrives, Peggy and David [...]
New look, exhibits at maryland Historical Society
Monday, December 8th, 2003If you are interested in exposing your children to a bit of Maryland history, there’s no better time than now at the newly renovated Maryland Historical Society. The museum, at 201 W. Monument St. in Baltimore, now has more space and new and expanded programs and exhibits. A glass-enclosed entrance connects to three stories of [...]
Local author realizes deram in first book
Monday, December 8th, 2003There were no books in Mary McManas Burke’s house growing up _ they were an expense the family couldn’t afford. The first book she ever saw was her first grade primer. But after turning those pages, she was hooked. From that moment, the Columbia resident read everything she could find. When her own children were [...]