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• Macabee, Christine
  • A short biography of EPC's Pastor Ben Jones
  • Goat Tails
    • Beating the Storm
    • Breaking Down the Barriers
    • Bossy
    • Dumb Animals
    • Mending the Fence
    • No Ifs, Ands, or Butts - or, Who's Boss?
    • The Death of Fleetfoot
    • The ongoing adventures of Fleetfoot and Fawn
  • Garden Ramblings
    • Memories of Birds
    • The Lowly Dandelion: "Nipping Them in the Bud"
    • To Bee or Not to Bee
    • What is a Tree Worth
    • Winter Musings: Seed Stratification
  • My Life is My Career
    • A Late Summer Harvest of Thoughts
    • Being Green
    • Change: For Better and for Worse
    • Misunderstood, but beautiful
    • On canning tomatoes, and love
    • Serendipity: My Mixed-up Mutt
    • What a Life!
• Mackley, E. A.
  • Remembering My Times in a One Room Schoolhouse
• MaCoy, Annette
  • Be on the Lookout for the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
• Madden, Cameron - Four Years at the Mount
  • Freshman Year
    • Introducing Myself
    • Life at home
    • How holidays happen
• Mahmassani, Betsy
  • Merry, bright, and green
  • Finding joy and making the most of March
• Markle, Amanda
  • Cicadas – Why every 17 years?
  • An evolutionary arms race
  • Finding harmony between technology & nature
  • The Franklin Tree
  • For the love of leaves
  • Encounters with owls
  • Enjoying the outdoors all winter long
  • Early signs of spring
  • Small scale maple sugaring
  • Helping baby wildlife
  • In defense of dandelions
  • Poison Ivy
  • If a tree falls in the forest…
• Marks, Kaitlyn - Four Years at the Mount
  • Freshman Year
    • Seeking truth and luck
    • A blossoming gratitude
    • Christmas magic
    • Finding balance
    • Connecting and creating
    • Cultivating magic
    • Learning to see beauty everywhere
    • The First Year
  • Sophomore Year
    • Identity and community
    • Unity and change
    • Accepting yourself
    • Embracing change
• Marrow, Will
  • All in the Family - Pets Large & Small - Peep...Peep...Peep
  • Whitmore Farm's Rules for Feeding Chickens if You Have Goats
• Marshall, Ann
  • A Church Picnic Long Ago
  • St. Anthony's Shrine Parish, The History of
• Marshall, David
  • 2023
    • The price we pay for political cowards
    • Public servants who are willing to serve
    • Jimmy Carter
    • Politics and the golden rule
  • 2022
    • Memorable days for American patriotism
    • Democracy dies when good people do nothing
    • Leader of the Free World
    • The Fight for Democracy
    • Weak free press = weak America
    • Democracy's erosion cannot be ignored
    • America could use a few fireside chats
    • The oath of office should never be a lie
    • Don’t drink the Kool-Aid
    • National unity comes first
    • Choosing fact over fiction
    • Democracy was the midterm winner
• Martin, Kevin - Peace Voice
  • Peace on the Korean Peninsula Needs to Be a Priority
• Martin, Wade, Rev.
  • 2003-2004
    • A Great Cloud of Witnesses
    • A Mother Spirit
    • A Passion for Winning
    • All for One and One for All
    • Attitude of Beatitude
    • Becoming a Point of Light
    • Beyond the Boundaries
    • Bread of Heaven
    • Call and Vision
    • Can You Hear me Know?
    • Catch the Flame
    • Committed or Not
    • Divine Abundance
    • Discovering Life's Purpose
      • It's Not About Us
      • We are Family
      • Getting In Shape
    • Does He Still Feel the Pain
    • From Grave to Glory
    • God Didn't Create Junk
    • God's Vision
    • Gracious Acceptance
    • Hakuna Matata
    • Holy, Bold, and Intolerant
    • Homosexuality & Our Christian Response
    • Hope in the Wake of Tragedy
    • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
    • Images from the Porch
    • Incomplete Christians
    • Is "Church" Really Relevant Anymore?
    • It's About Following
    • It's Not About Us
    • Kick It Up A Notch!
    • Leading Christ's Church
    • Let Go and Let God
    • Liberty and Justice For All
    • Life After Death
    • Light in the Darkness
    • Lord Over the Storms
    • Lost But Still Loved
    • Love is the Answer
    • Making A Difference
    • Messengers of God
    • More then a Bullfrog
    • More then a Bush
    • My Lord and My God
    • Of God or Of Satan
    • One Bread, One Body
    • One Body, Many Parts
    • Operation Save Humanity
    • Parade of Possibility
    • Passion-Driven Disciples
    • Putting Faith to Work
    • Still on the Throne
    • Spring Cleaning
    • Take Up My Yoke
    • Birth of Hope
    • The Cost of Freedom
    • The Day of the Lord
    • The Gift of Faith
    • The Grace of Forgiveness
    • The Jesus Way
    • The Power of One
    • The Price of Freedom
    • The Road to Glory
    • The Scars of Grace
    • The Unforgettable Gift
    • Thoughts on War
    • To Lie or Not To Lie
    • United We Stand! For What?
    • Victory in Easter
    • What A Woman!
    • We Are Healed
    • We Will Be Judged
    • Well Rooted
    • Where Are You God?
    • Where Is God When It Hurts?
    • Wise Men (and Women) Still Seek Him
    • Women's Work
    • Work in Progress
    • Worship or Entertainment
    • You Are the One
  • 2005
    • A New Beginning
    • God and the Tsunami
    • Jesus is the one
    • Casting the Net
    • More then a Bullfrog
    • "Clean and Fill"
    • God Didn't Create Junk
    • Blurred Vision
    • Love is the Answer
    • Is "Church" Really Relevant Anymore?
    • It's Not About Us
    • Moving from Yes to Peace
    • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
    • Lost But Still Loved
    • The Misunderstood Messiah
    • Press On to the Goal
    • Beyond the Veil
    • Life or Death: Who Decides?
    • Parade of Possibility
    • And He Walks With Me
    • Hakuna Matata
    • God's Ultimate Purpose
    • The Scars of Grace
    • Reconnecting
    • Celebrating God's Creation
    • The Lord is My Shepherd
    • Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
    • All for One and One for All
    • The Cost of Freedom
    • Bloom Where You Are Planted
    • Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
    • Golf: God's Game
    • Do Pets Go to Heaven?
    • Sharing the Dream
    • Covenant Has Its Expectations
    • The Measure of a Person
    • "Who Is Jesus Anyway?"
    • Messengers of God
    • Humility: A Christ-Like Quality
    • "Creation or Evolution"
    • "Work: Blessing or Curse"
    • Connecting to the Power Source
    • "Panting for God"
    • "Responsibilities and Rewards"
    • Cultivating the Soul
      • Cutting Away the Brush
      • Preparing the Soil
      • Bearing Good Fruit
    • "The Family of God"
    • The Forgotten Verses
    • Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
    • "Why Am I Not Where I Want to Be?"
    • Be Prepared
    • Can I Really Trust God?
    • Responsibility, Accountability, and Trust
    • Remain Watchful
    • Passing Forward
    • Message from the Desert
    • Using Patience Wisely
    • A Bridge to Hope and Peace
  • 2006
    • Surrender and Sacrifice
    • It's Not About Us
    • Embarking on a Fruit Bearing Adventure
    • Why Does Humanity Need God?
    • The Highway to Hell or the Freeway to Heaven
    • I Believe I Can Fly
    • The Good Shepherd
    • Taking Christ to the People
    • The Living Hope
    • Mission Possible!
    • Whom Do You Serve?
    • Betting On False Hope
    • God's Top Ten
    • From Fringe Follower to Faithful Follower
    • Living as a Disciple in a Strange Land
    • Surviving the Darkness
    • Are You Falling Asleep at the Switch?
    • Lights, Camera, Oh Yea, Jesus Too!
  • 2007
    • A Covenant People
    • Come, Follow Me
    • Connecting With the Sweet Spot
    • Reaching Our Changing World
    • Hungry, Dirty, and Tempted
    • Who Do You Say Jesus Really Is?
    • Repent or Perish
    • Growing Older and Wiser, and Treasuring It!
    • God Rolls Away Stones
    • The Light of Christ
    • Making a Life, Not a Living
    • Freedom in Christ
    • Teach Me to Pray
    • Making God Proud
    • (W)Holy Committed
    • God is in the House!
    • Losing Big, Living large
    • Living in Grace
    • God's Glory Revealed:
      • Thought Victory
      • Through the Cross
      • Through Suffering
      • Through Our Relationships
      • Through Sin
    • Staff of Assurance
    • R U the 1
  • 2008
    • Filled to Famished
    • A Drink of Living Water
    • Buck Naked Before the Lord
    • When God is Silent
• Massaro, Sheryl
  • Who Needs Grass?
• Matthews, Pastor Paul
  • God’s kindness
• McCauslin, Debra
  • Black Civil War Veterans from Biglerville?
  • The kidnapping of ex-slave Kitty Payne
• McConkey, Bob
  • Spring is Garden Tour Time
• McDermitt, Patty  
  • Attracting Hummingbirds
  • Beware – Some Plants Are Evil
  • Exotic Invasive Plants and Our Environment
  • I'm Blue for Blueberries
  • So Happy Together ... Companion Planting
• McPhail, Valerie
  • 2015
    • Staying fashionably comfortable: the menswear industry
    • A backstage pass to New York Fashion Week
    • Children’s fashion
    • Reflections on the ready-to-wear runway
    • American sportswear
    • Men's Summer Style
    • Fashion Trends
    • Street style in the city
    • Back-to-school cool
    • Fall fashion
    • What to wear to the holiday party
  • 2016
    • Back to the basics
    • Easter Fashion
    • How to Wear Floral this Springtime
    • For the Love of Fashion
    • Summer fashion finds
    • For the love of sneakers
    • Denim Daydreams
    • Fall Fashion Favorites
    • Back to School Fashion
    • An argument to accessorize
    • Fashion forward this Holiday Season
  • 2017
    • Statement pieces for the New Year
    • For the love of Fashion in NYC
    • Fashion treasures for a timeless age
    • Easter Inspiration
    • Spring fashions have sprung!
    • Fighting the formality of menswear
    • How to dress like a fashionista in resortwear
    • August fashions
    • Back to school basics
    • Fall fashion
    • Layers – the new looks this fall season
    • Getting comfortable with Winter White
  • 2018
    • A fashionable New Year’s resolution
    • Showing love to Men’s Fashion Week
    • Fashion’s Paradox for April Fool’s Day
    • A Rebellious Spark in Summer Fashion
    • Summer Shades
    • Fashionably Trending: The Royal Family
    • Men’s Fashion Week
    • The most important month in fashion
    • My trendsetting twin sister
    • New York’s favorite accessory: The Man bag
    • A Guide to Gift Giving
  • 2019
    • Sweater weather
    • The evolution of keeping warm
    • Remembering Karl Lagerfeld
    • Is fashion art?
    • Questionable summer trends for 2019
    • New Fashion Week calendar hits the streets
    • Fall/Winter fashion
    • Christmas gift ideas
  • 2020
    • Winter Fashion Trends
    • Making fashion sustainable
    • Nothing says spring like a pretty bonnet
    • Reinventing the new, from the old
    • Springtime fashion wear
    • Dressing up is the rule…
• Matthews, Hugh
  • Monty Python’s Gardens
• McFague, Sallie
  • The World as God's Body
• McNair, Charles
  • The Green Parrot Tea Room
• Meeropol, Robert  -  Peace Voice
  • Pelosi and Biden: Stand Up!
• Meredith, Bill - The Retired Ecologist
  • Reminiscing with Bill Meredith
  • 2000
    • Creating Chaos from Order
    • Fire Flies
    • Gossamer Days in Indian Summer
    • Of Birds and Brains: a Lesson in Humility
    • Of Shoes...and Wooly Bears
    • Songless September
    • The Dog Days of Summer
    • The Five Seasons
    • The Snowy Owl
    • Willow Rill: The Story of a Little Stream
  • 2001
    • A Time for … Any Purpose?
    • April, The Month of Fools and Showers
    • Arrogant mice and humble bees
    • In Praise of Weeds
    • Lightning (bugs) in a bottle
    • Musings about March
    • Of butterflies and bombs
    • Of Fall and Passing
    • Of Miracles and Illusions
    • Of silken connections
    • Preserving the Islands of Emmitsburg
    • Silk
    • The Song of Songs
    • Sunrise on a tangled web
    • The Hunger Moon
  • 2002
    • Looking Forward and Back
    • Of Aging and Entropy
    • Of Anniversaries and Lasting Influences
    • Of Grapes and Foxes
    • Of Miracles and Illusions
    • Of Patriotism and Un-noticed Outcomes
    • Of Spring Migrations, and the Lily Pad Problem
    • Of Trees and Mortality
    • Requiem for the Great White Hawk
    • Requiem for U. S. Route 40
    • Silk
    • The 40th Anniversary of 'Silent Spring'
    • The Praise of Weeds
  • 2003
    • Bird Species in Emmitsburg
    • Bragging Rights to Snowbound Memories
    • Great Forest, Past and Future
    • Nuts to 2003
    • Of Anniversaries and Lasting Influence
    • Of birds, and books, and years gone by
    • Of Butterflies and Bombs
    • On Growing, up and old
    • Of Fences and Change
    • On making it through the tough times
    • Seeds of Things to Come
    • Realities of the Myth of the Green Thumb
    • The Food Chain through the Kitchen Window
    • The Great Forest, Past and Future
    • Trespassing into the field of Genetics
    • Watching Time Go By
  • 2004
    • Advertising for Disaster
    • Defending the Home Front against Night Raiders
    • Ignoring the Signs
    • Loose screws in the Ecosystem
    • Nuts to 2003
    • Of Immigrants, and Natives, and the Persistence of Memory
    • Of Systems, and Models, and Vulnerability
    • Of Worms, Legends, and the Last Man Who Knew Everything
    • On Growing, up and old
    • Protecting the Homeland in Winter
    • Random Thoughts on the Last Walk of the Year
    • The Real Mystery of the Cicadas
    • The Trouble with Science
  • 2005
    • A Parliament of Owls
    • An Analog Mind in a Digital World
    • Entropy Strikes Again
    • Grandpa vs. the Internet
    • Learning the Fine Art of Vacationing
    • Lions, Gorillas and Bears ...
    • Loose screws in the Ecosystem
    • Of Poetry, and Science, and Growing Old on the Floodplain
    • Reflecting on the effects of Climate Change
    • Reflections on King Solomon's Ring while Riding an Aged Lawnmower
    • The Food Chain through the Kitchen Window
    • The Lord God Bird, and the Threat to Conservation
    • Weathering Life
    • Why You Shouldn't Start an Herb Garden after You're 60
    • With Apologies to 2005: A Christmas Card, with Explanation
  • 2006
    • Adventures with bats
    • Doing Something about the Weather
    • If Starlings Could Speak
    • Invasion of the Alien Mustard
    • In Praise of Irrational Exuberance
    • In Vino Veritas (I think)
    • Of Aesop, and Gershwin, & Feeding Birds in Winter
    • Lions’ Teeth and Gallant Soldiers
    • Of Slugs in Winter
    • The plagues on all our houses
    • The race is to the swifts... for now
    • Un-learning about Worms
  • 2007
    • A Career Spent Watching Disasters
    • Adventures with bats
    • Biological Clocks in the Devil's Playground
    • Birds of a Feather Flock to an Old Teacher
    • Correlating the Weather
    • Doing something about the weather
    • Global Warming and the New China Syndrome
    • Furbish Louseworts, Turtleheads, and Canaries in Coal Mines
    • Of Christmases, Past and Present
    • Remembering the Birth of an Era
    • The Madness of March
    • To Be, or Not To Be: What Was the Question?
    • Walking with Open Eyes
    • Wisdom from a Turtle in Indian Summer
  • 2008
    • Curious thoughts about curiosity
    • In Praise of Irrational Exuberance
    • Of Bird’s Nest Fungi, and Luck, and Small Fall Things
    • Of Elms and Orioles
    • Of Goatsuckers, and the Legend of Chuck-Will’s Widow
    • Of men and moon-walking mockingbirds
    • Of rain, and frogs, and the lack thereof
    • The ecology of illegal aliens
    • Thoughts on Reaching 100
    • To See or Not to See
    • Tomato Stakes and Puffballs
    • Watching Butterflies Flutter By
  • 2009
    • An Aging Mind Grapples with Euler, Diderot, and Biological Clocks
    • Counting at Christmas
    • Global Warming: Complex Questions, Simple Answers?
    • Of Trees and Life
    • Quiet Fall
    • Remembering when Science was Fun
    • The Metaphor of the Old Dead Truck
    • The war of the rodents
    • The War of the Rodents, Part II: Of Mice and Women
    • Thoughts Between Naps on Anniversaries and Paradigm Shifts
    • Vacation Verses
  • 2010
    • A (moderately) Frabjous Day
    • Conversation with a Log
    • Dog Days and Night Sounds
    • Lo, the Winter is (finally) Past
    • Mountain Revisited
    • Of Fall, Tree Frogs, and the Minds of Children
    • Of Raspberries and (family) History
    • Of Snow, and Silence, and Salvador Dali
    • Optimism in an Uncertain World
    • The Merry, Melancholy Month of May
    • The Search for an Ideal World
    • Why We Have Robins in the Cold
  • 2011
    • By the Numbers, Weather or not
    • Christmas Comes (earlier) Once a Year
    • Dog Day Lessons
    • Economy of Nature & Ecology of Man
    • Life Insurance for Squirrels
    • November Moods
    • Of Squirrels & Rabbits & How They Got That Way
    • Signs and Smells of Autumn
    • Spring: Old Memories, New Hopes, and the Search for Wisdom
    • Summer Evenings, Past & Present
    • The Need to Name, or, Santa Rosalia Laughs Last
    • Vacation!
  • 2012
    • A Wandering Mind on a Gray… or was it Grey? Day
    • Autumn & Hope for the Future
    • Clavis calendaria, 199 years later
    • Creeping into the New Year
    • Drifting
    • Earth Day 1 to Earth Day 42
    • Forever New
    • In Praise of Rain
    • Requiescat in Pace, Lonesome George… et alii
    • Singing Without Knowing Why
    • Spring is Here, I Hear
    • Wild life
  • 2013
    • A Biologist’s Background
    • A Runcible Season
    • Bittersweet Invasion
    • Christmases Past, recorded in the Palest Ink
    • Not-So-Great Expectations
    • Of trees and aging
    • Out of the Mouths of Babes, Birds and Caterpillars
    • The mad mice of March
    • Up the Winding Stair
    • What I learned from Stan
    • When you are old & gray & full of Paraprosdakians…
  • 2014
    • Another Christmas Passed
    • Garden Logic
    • Little Things
    • Living on the Polar Vortex
    • Mayflies in August
    • Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things
    • Scenes from the Jungles of Emmitsburg
    • The Fable of the World’s Smallest Bird
    • The Voice of the Turtle, Who Speaketh Not in Homophones
    • The 800-Pound Gorilla in the Plum Tree
    • Turkeys in the yard, and memories of the past
  • 2015
    • Anniversary
    • Can science explain everything?
    • If you’re a Cowbird, old habits die hard
    • Of Mice and Omens
    • Noticing Stuff
    • On Learning
    • Polish Peppers and Bumblebees
    • St. Swithun, the Internet, & Grandma’s Garden
    • Wandering and wondering with ants
    • Weather, under ground
    • When Ecesis is Over, Life Goes On
    • Will "Gimpy" survive?
  • 2016
    • It’s January, so it must be El Nino
    • Remembering Ruth Richards
    • Winter in an inverted year
    • Of lambs and lions and armadillos
    • Appreciating Spring… with a cautionary note
    • The Red Knots Call
    • Evolution...in Emmitsburg?
    • The summer of our discontent
    • The voice crying in the Paradigm Shift
    • Aging with birds and grandchildren
    • Following a wandering mind
    • Time Flies ... again
  • 2017
    • Looking through the eyes of Janus
    • The way we were
    • The "Why" Question
    • Remembering things that didn’t happen
    • The war of the trees
    • Avian hygiene comes to Emmitsburg
    • Accepting the counsel of the years
    • The year of the Mealy Bugs
    • Straight land cycles in nature
    • It all depends on where you live
    • It’s That Time Again
    • Even In December, life goes on
  • 2018
    • Learning Ecology by Divagation
    • The problem that won't go away
    • Of words and manners
    • In like a Lion, out like a …?
    • Time, Flying
    • Best-laid Plans
    • Frustrated masses in the digital world
    • Little-noticed things
• Metcalf, Melissa L.
  • Cottage Gardens - the Anything Goes Garden
• Metz, Charlie
  • Accidental Orange Invader
  • Christmas Trees
  • End of Spring care for Junipers, Leylands and Hollies
  • Fall Shade Tree Planting
  • How winter snows and storms effect trees & gardens
  • Low-maintenance groundcover to spruce up those barren areas
  • Making Spring lawns look great
  • Moles, Voles and Holes
  • Preventing Winter Damage to Shrubs and Trees
  • Suggestions for this year's vegetable garden
  • They're back! The 17 year cicadas are coming this year
    • Hysteria over the cicada emergence of 2004
  • Things you can do to help improve the heath the Chesapeake Bay
  • Will this winter ever end?
  • Winter Activities for Gardeners
• Miksad, John - Peace Voice
  • The greatest threats to our safety & security
  • A Real Day for Veterans
• Miller, Alicia
  • A Short History of the Stonehurst Inn
• Miller, Jackie
  • Techniques for a healthy, productive organic garden
• Miller, Jen - In the Country
  • The American kestrel
  • The Forest Hawk
  • The Ghost Owl
  • The Little Horned Owl Whooo Could
  • The Vulture Who Stole Christmas
  • Where the Wild Things Are
• Miller, John
  • Colonial Period
    • How Whiskey Almost Started a War
    • The Flying Camp Battalion
    • The Forgotten Patriots of the Tom's Creek Hundred
    • The Game Cock Company
    • The Short History of Defense of Maryland During the War of 1812
    • The Unit History of the Tom's Creek Hundred's Game Cock Company
    • Toms Creek Hundred: The Wild Frontier
  • Civil War
    • A Short History of Emmitsburg in the Civil War
    • Battle for Monterey Pass
    • Cavalry Battles Around Emmitsburg
    • Civil War battles along the Emmitsburg & Waynesboro Pike
    • The Confederate retreat from Gettysburg
      • Part 2
      • Part 3
      • Part 4
      • Part 5
      • Part 6
    • Emmitsburg and the Recoil of Gettysburg
    • Emmitsburg in the Civil War: 1862
    • Emmitsburg in the Civil War: The Raids of 1864
    • General Albert Jenkins Cavalry Brigade During Gettysburg
    • General Meade's Pipe Creek Circular
    • General Meade and the Protection of Emmitsburg
    • General Reynolds and Emmitsburg
    • Holding Fairfield and the Emmitsburg & Waynesboro Pike
    • List of Military Engagements in the Emmitsburg and Adam's County
    • Mechanicstown 1861-1862
    • Military Operations of Lewistown
    • More Cavalry Battles Around Emmitsburg During the Civil War
    • Regimental History of Cole’s Cavalry Company “C”
    • Signal Operations of Emmitsburg During the Civil War
    • South Mountain during General Early's Raid of 1864
    • South Mountain during the Pennsylvania Campaign
    • South Mountain during Early's Raid
    • The Aftermath of the Battle of Monterey
    • The Army of the Potomac After the Battle of Gettysburg
    • The Battle of Fountain Dale
    • The Battle of Monterey Pass
    • The History of the Keystone Rangers
    • The Struggle for Fountaindale
    • Thurmont During the Civil War
    • Zora: The Pivotal Crossroad to Gettysburg
  • Misc.
    • A Brief History of the Emmitsburg Little League
    • Barbed Wire and the Spirit of Christmas
    • Childhood Memories of Emmitsburg with My Father
    • Growing up in Northern Frederick County
    • How to Become a Re-Enactor
    • My Old Mountain Home & Memories of West Virginia
    • Re-enacting Civil War Ancestors
    • Some Interesting Opinions of Emmitsburg's Social Past
    • The Celebrations of March
    • The Monterey Pass Battlefield Park & Museum
    • The Origins of Some Christmas Traditions
    • Terror on the Monongahela
      • part 2
      • part 3
    • Toms Creek Frontier in the French & Indian War
• Miller, Liz
  • Attracting Bats to Your Garden
  • Gardening for the Birds
  • Gardening in Containers
• Miller, Nancy
  • Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Miller, Pam
  • Adding winter plants of interest to your garden
  • Great Ways to Use Herbs
• Miller, Sarah -  Four Years At The Mount
  • Thank you, Mom
  • Can we just be nice?
  • A Christmas dream
  • Honesty is the only policy
  • Looking a bit deeper
  • The light that never goes out
  • Hug a tree
  • The friends you meet along the way
  • Goodbye!
• Montefusco, Marc
  • Automatic Watering Systems
  • Controlling Japanese Beetles Without Use of Chemicals
  • Effective Weed Control for Your Garden
  • Fall - The Best time to Plant Peonies
  • Growing and Caring for Orchids
  • How to Grow and Care for Clematis
  • Making Gardens Look Better in the Winter
  • Selecting Plants for Their Fall Leaf Colors
  • Stocking Up for Your Spring Gardening Season
  • Tilling 1, 2, 3
  • Timing the Planting of Spring Bulbs
  • The Pros & Cons of Bradford Pears
  • The Right Time to Prune Trees and Shrubs.
  • Wet Weather and Your Garden
  • Why plant stores and catalogs use confusing Latin
• Moran, Linda
  • Books for Gardeners- Perfect Christmas Gifts
  • Selecting Bulbs for your Spring Garden
• Mordan, Dorothea - Good Day Neighbor
  • 2024
    • Fabric of humanity
    • Make a plan to vote
    • Taxation with representation
    • Valentine to educators
    • Healthcare Under Attack
    • The easy way
    • America's political pendulums
    • Circular debates
    • I’m on Team Teacher
    • The fabric of our county, our country
    • First impressions, rational judgments
    • Fiscal responsibility, Repudiation Day
  • 2023
    • The bot who cried wolf!
    • Charity begins with planning
    • Valentine to caregivers
    • The value of institutional knowledge
    • The brain is invisible
    • Democracy
      • Part 1: Representation
      • Part 2: Representation and Inclusion
    • 2023 storm of confusion
    • Schools In!
    • The other social safety net
    • Tearing down our institutions
    • Family celebrations
  • 2022
    • Decisions, decisions
    • Straw Man Arguments
    • Circles of life
    • King for a Day
    • Look for the helpers
    • The Good Life
    • Tiumvirate for a healthy society…
    • My valentine to teachers
    • Marching into gardens and CSAs
    • On Federal Mental Health Programs
    • My brother’s keeper
    • Community comes in all shapes
  • 2021
    • Balancing rights and responsibilities
    • Thanksgiving and the true gift of traditions
    • Electric cars, they are about to be everywhere
• Morris, Brittany - Mount Creative Writers
  • Caught Red-Handed
  • If Only
  • The Friend Zone
  • The Perfect Christmas Present
• Morton, Carol
  • Cool Weather and Indoor Insects
  • Fall Web Worms et. al.
  • Fall Reflection and Changes
  • Feeding Birds In the Winter
  • Insects can be found just about everywhere
  • Mulching – More is not Always Better!
  • The Christmas Tradition of the Yule Log
  • Topping Trees is not Acceptable Pruning Technique
• Moss, Andrew - Peace Voice
  • 2019
    • Immigrationspeak
    • Asylum as a human right
    • Getting It Right on Immigration
    • The many faces of immigration resistance
    • Raising the stakes in the struggle over immigration detention
    • Voting Rights and the Coming Election
    • Preparing for a Contested Election
  • 2020
    • Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex
    • Incarceration, Detention, and Covid-19
    • Racial Fault Lines and the Coronavirus
    • The Four Horsemen of This Apocalypse
    • Naming the Violence
    • Fighting COVID-19 by Empowering Workers
    • Justice for All Essential Workers
  • 2021
    • Deceptive Speech
    • Battling Xenophobia
    • America and Climate-Related Migration
    • Citizenship is the path to a more democratic America
    • Immigration and National Identity
    • Which immigration story will prevail?
    • Why the Path to Citizenship Remains Blocked
  • 2022
    • Casting a discerning eye on political theater
  • 2023
    • Why the Fight to Unionize Starbucks Matters to Us All
    • Swedish Mechanics And Labor Justice
  • 2024
    • Donald Trump and the Uses of Violence
    • Republican Hubris in Courting Black Voters
    • Healthcare at a Crossroads
    • What this Election Means for Parents
    • Protect Medicaid!
• Moyer, Cherie  
  • Amaryllis, the Perfect Indoor Winter Plant
  • Caring for Rhododendrons
  • Spring Maintenance for your Water Garden
• Mrgich, Barb
  • A Garden with a New Car Smell
  • A Gardener's Christmas Wish List
    • Give The Gift Of A Garden
  • A Perennial Primer
  • A Winter Garden Habitat
  • A vote in favor of Lamb’s Ears
  • Achieving Beauty in the Winter Garden
  • Ants On Peony Buds
  • Agastache - Fun to Say & a Great Plant to Grow
  • Alliums add pizzazz to your garden
  • Attracting Birds and Butterflies to Your Garden
  • Bees: Friend Or Foe?
  • Bulbs Around The Clock
  • Caring for Birds in Winter
  • Composting Made Simple
  • Coneflowers Aren’t Just Purple Anymore
  • Containers bring added beauty to your garden
    • Keeping Containers Happy and Healthy
  • Dealing with Slugs in Your Garden
  • Decorating With Greens
  • Early Spring Gardening Tips
  • Ecological value of native plants
  • Encounters with butterflies
  • Enjoying the Wildlife in My September Garden
  • Establishing A New Garden With No Digging
  • Even Non-Gardeners Can Help Support Pollinators
  • Everyone needs a rain garden
  • Favorite Trees and Shrubs for Your Garden
  • FAQs About Spring Blooming Bulbs
  • Feed The Pollinators
    • Ten Steps to a Successful Pollinator Garden
  • Gardening in the Glorious Month of May
  • Gardening on Paper - Planning a Garden
  • Garden Mint
  • Green Gardens, Clean Water
  • Ground Covers To The Rescue
  • Home Gardening Essentials
  • Invite the Hummers, and They Will Come
  • Is Fall the Better Time to Plant?
  • Learning the language of flowers
  • Learning to Pronounce Those Botanical Names
  • Lessons Learned From My Milkweed
  • Let’s teach our kids the value of plant diversity
  • Make Your Yard Support Our Environment
  • March Gardening Tips
  • Master Gardener Classes get Rave Reviews
  • Nature’s Tricks To Lure Pollinators
  • Native Honeysuckle - A Magnet for Hummers
  • Native Red Columbine
  • No-Water Gardening
  • Ornamental Grasses Add Grace and Movement
  • Our 98% organic lawn
  • Planting A Tree? Consider A Native
  • Planting in dry shade
  • Plant it right for healthier, long-lived plants
  • Plant Soon for Early Spring Color
  • Poison Ivy - The Native Plant Nobody Wants
  • Pruning - Sear Your Plants To Get More Flowers
  • Pussy Willow -- A Valuable Native Plant
  • Reasons flowering shrubs don’t bloom
  • Replacing Old Shrubbery
  • Say no to weeds
  • Self-sowers can help fill in your garden
  • Small Changes Can Improve Your Home's Curb Appeal
  • Stop Storm Water Run-Off On A Hilly Lot
  • Sustainable Land Use Gaining Ground with Forrest Pritchard
  • Tall Garden Phlox - a Major Pollinator Attractor
  • Take Advantage Of Free Fertilizer... Use Your Leaves!
  • Take Your Soil’s Temperature
  • Tasty, Tantalizing French Tarragon
  • Ten steps to success with Tulips
  • The Christmas Fern
  • The Cottage Garden
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
  • The Cup Plant, a valuable native plant
  • The Dirt On Plant Division
  • To Cut Back or Not Cut Back...That Is the Question
  • Watering your garden
  • Where Do Butterflies Go In The Winter?
  • Why I Garden
  • Using Caryopteris to Enhance Your Perennials
  • Using Focal Points and Garden Art
  • Using Your Compost
  • Winterberry, A Beautiful, Multi-Use Native Plant
  • Winter habitat for wildlife
• Mulqueen, Julia  - Four Years at the Mount
  • Junior Year
    • Hardheaded Philosophy
    • Reflections from Across the Pond
    • The Mount's ROTC Program
    • A Community of Self-sacrifice
    • Life in the woods
    • A Weekend Retreat
    • The Wonder and Awe of 2010
    • Sergeant David Conroy
    • Exchanging Sorrow for Love
    • Bucket List
  • Senior Year
    • Here I Come!
    • Kittens!
    • The Best Year Yet
    • Conquering LDAC Part II
    • LDAC - Conquered
    • Living Witnesses
    • 24 Hours at the Mount
    • Situational Tactical Exercises
    • Spring is Here!
    • Thank You
  • The 2nd Lt. (The Graduate)
    • Life as a fresh butter bar
    • Preparing for Paradise
    • Lets have a ball
    • Learning how to stand
• Muir, Sarah - Four Years at the Mount
  • Freshman year
    • Easing apprehension
    • Dear Teachers
    • Christmas Thoughts
    • To a New Year
    • Learning and leading
    • A mountain of gold
    • Through the fence
    • Once upon a time…
  • Sophomore year
    • Re-discovering patriotism
    • Free to be Me
    • Thanks for the luck, we need it...
    • The end of the sentence
    • Okay. Let's start over
    • Sincerely, me.
    • I’ll be home for Christmas…
    • Mending Fences
    • John Adams, too, survives
    • "If you want to do it, you can do it."
    • An unsocial media
    • Time flies when you’re having fun
  • Junior Year
    • Those summer nights...
    • In Memoriam…
    • Three Wishes
    • The year was...
    • Falling for autumn
    • The Usual Thanks
    • A Plate of Cookies
    • Following the leader
    • Happy Birthday, Mr. Steinbeck
    • Formation Of Local Militia
    • Plant your trees
    • In retrospect...
  • Senior Year
    • To give praise where it is due
    • Before and after
    • To Whom it May Concern;
    • So…It’s my Senior year…
    • Looking for luck
    • These precious few
    • A tradition—broken and shared
    • For the love of literature…
    • For want of humanity
    • Give me liberty…
    • Scheherazade
    • Begin at the beginning…
  • The Graduate
    • Start the presses
    • Our duty as we understand it
    • Sincerely, Sarah
    • Back to ...
  • Creative
    • For the Love of Dickens and the Want of a Book
    • The attacks on the fee press should give everyone pause
• Muns, David
  • Seven Mistakes Beginner Vegetable Gardeners Make
• Murdock, Tony
  • Pruning Crepe Myrtles
• Murphy, Jeremy
  • Walking Into Hell
• Murphy, John, Commander - Cold War Warriors
  • A  Day with the last soviet naval leader
  • Beginning of the end of the USSR
  • Cold War Fallout
  • Cuban Missile Crisis 50th anniversary
  • Incidents at Sea
  • Moles - The Enemy within
  • Putin The Great
  • NSA Surveillance Programs
  • NSA...The Early Years
  • Rooskiy Rookie
  • Russians Vs. Romans!
  • Spy Ships, Theirs and Ours
  • Submarines - the Secret War Within the Cold War
  • The Cold War’s Chaotic Sixties
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis - Part 1
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis - Part 2
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis - "Execute Scabbards '63 "
  • The "Thaw" in Gettysburg
  • The 1980s - Exodus of Soviet Jews from the USSR
  • 1990’s – The Gorbachev coup and the end of the USSR
  • World War III will be at 8 AM in the Morning!
• Murphy, Ralph
  • Church & State
  • In From the Cold
  • Common Cents
    • 2012
      • Are we Greece?
    • 2013
      • The BRICs are coming
      • The Obama Pivot
      • Japan - Land of the Rising Debt
      • Cyber Wars
      • Beating the bomb
      • Shadow intelligence
      • Citizens or Guests?
      • Europe’s wrong turn
      • To Frack or Not to Frack
      • Ethanol or Food
      • Zero Sum in the Middle East
      • The bear that roared
      • Divide and Rule
      • East China Air Space
    • 2014
      • Drug Wars
      • The new space race?
      • "King’s Highway" … China’s new Silk Road
      • Neo Soviets
      • China's Pond
      • China’s chance
      • On Russian military action in the Ukraine
      • Russia's Crimea Gambit
      • Russia's Crimea Land Grab
      • Russian vs. the Ukraine - Who is Next?
      • Flight 370 - Opportunity for Cooperation or confrontation?
      • Taiwan Strait Ties
      • Great Britain’s Sunset?
      • Latin Union
      • Axis of Evil
      • Iraq, oil & budding terrorists
      • The China Pivot
      • Crown Royal
      • The politics of Russian Natural Gas
      • The true price of Russian oil
      • Criminal Law
      • Rogue Reward
      • Steppenwolf
      • Philae, the little probe that could
    • 2015
      • Havana Daydreaming
      • Emerald Isle
      • Perfect Storm
      • Sustainable peace
      • Wavering Friendships
      • With I.T.
      • Megaphone
      • Different drummers
      • On the possibility of a Greek exit from a Eurozone
      • The Beat Goes on
      • Judicial Review
      • Dirty Work
      • Europe's Refugee Crisis
      • Northern Lights
      • Life on the roof
      • Neo Ottomans
    • 2016
      • Just imagine
      • Ground the debt
      • Mass merger
      • Pax Europaea
      • EEZ in the Law of the Sea
      • Texas tea
      • Junk Bonds
      • Implication of Brexit
      • Proxy Lead
      • The Golden Fleece Award
      • Net debt
      • Manhattan money
      • The Road to Recession
    • 2017
      • Counter Coup
      • Rolling plunder
      • Table Top
      • Treasury Leaks
      • High and dry
    • 2018
      • Tariffs Woes
      • Boom or bust
      • Trade Weight
      • Fool's Gold
    • 2019
      • Value Added
      • Exile on Wall Street
      • Bell Weather Warning
      • Off Track Banking
      • The wealth of nations
      • Independent Central Banks
      • Financing an underground railroad
      • Taps of the trade
      • Time to pay the piper?
      • Power Gaps
      • Life after debt
      • The Market Watch
      • Port Proceedings
      • Material Mission
      • New Money - Old Debt
    • 2020
      • Port to Port
      • Easy Money, Hard Times
      • Roll Over Resolutions
      • Sage Rebellion
      • Tolls of the Time
      • Coup de Grace
      • April Fools - A critical look at the COVID stimulus bill
      • Chessboard Accord
      • Death of a Process
      • Core & Commons
      • WHO Cares Now
      • Clouds Account
      • The Corona Restoration
      • Promissory Sunset Clause
      • Pass the Hat
      • Part Time Post
      • Open Parachute Agreement
      • Keys to the Commons
      • Bought and Sold
      • Double Standard
• Murray, M. Mercedes
  • The Maryland Emmits
• Myers, Winslow - Peace Voice
  • 2024
    • Beyond Delusion
    • Navalny’s Value
    • What the analysts leave out
    • A Presidential Fireside Chat
  • 2023
    • Oppenheimer’s Truth
    • Gaza and Maine
    • Old and New Thinking
  • 2022
    • Delusional
    • Humility
    • The lost conversation
    • The Tragedy of Ukraine and New Thinking
    • Beyond deterrence
  • 2021
    • A Second Civil War?
  • 2020
    • How Long O' Lord?
    • Militarism
    • Critical Patriotism
    • Another Kind of Global Climate Change
  • 2019
    • Rotary International as a model for statecraft

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