Are you itching to get rid of mosquitoes?
Has your tomato plant produced blossoms but no fruit? If so, that may be because a neighbor engaged a mosquito control service. online pharmacy phenergan no prescription The principal active ingredient in the insecticides used by these services — pyrethrum, permethrin, resmethrin, or d-phenothrin — does not differentiate between mosquitoes and beneficial insects, such as the... READ MORE
Recommended reads from local authors
For many of us, the restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have afforded more time to enjoy quieter pastimes like reading. Social distancing has provided extra hours and space to discover new authors, reread old favorites and escape to another time and place. Local author Kathleen Reid, who wrote A Page Out of Life, Paris Match and, more recently, Sunrise in Florence, has... READ MORE
When your best doctor friends retire
In the wider world, it has been a month of protests, disease and turmoil. online pharmacy lasix with best prices today in the USA In my world, it has been a month of retirements. In the space of one week, for a variety of reasons, three men born in the 1940s, who have been taking care of me and my family in one way or another for ages, announced that they no longer would. First, ... READ MORE
Novels that focus on mature protagonists
The Bibliophile This summer, follow the adventures of characters our own age as the plots twist and turn to their denouement. Akin: A Novel, by Emma Donoghue, 352 pages, Back Bay Books paperback, 2020 Retired chemistry professor Noah Selvaggio is looking forward to spending his 80th birthday on a short visit to his hometown Nice, France. The widower lives alone in an apartment ... READ MORE
Amateur sleuths uncover buried history
They find a tiny bead here, a fish bone there, a piece of a chamber pot, a rusty hinge. The volunteers, many of them retirees, are working side-by-side with professional archaeologists to unearth centuries-old artifacts that reveal threads of history buried in the dirt. At two former Maryland and Virginia plantations, archaeological research initially focused on the lives of... READ MORE
Moonshine and more for second act
Peter Ahlf spent 25 years as a rocket scientist at NASA and a private firm, helping design the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, planning flight missions and more. But it wasn’t until he retired that he started making a kind of rocket fuel. Today, he crafts an award-winning absinthe, a green, anise-flavored spirit. Ahlf makes 400 bottles a month of the... READ MORE
Shakespeare group adapts to the times
All went well during the regular 2019-2020 season of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, which included stage productions in its downtown Baltimore theater of Measure for Measure and Hamlet as well as A Christmas Carol. But this summer, the theater hit a glitch, otherwise known as the pandemic. Normally, the company’s educator program includes both an extensive matinee series, camps, ... READ MORE
Life-long learners with love for the arts
Art means something different to everybody: paintings, music, theater, cinema, photography, architecture, even quilts. The 400 members of the Art Seminar Group (ASG), based in Baltimore County, try to provide access to a deeper understanding of each of those aspects of art. The group started in 1956, when several Baltimore women, hoping to learn more about abstract expressionism, hired ... READ MORE
Some surprising benefits of gardening
Each summer, the fruits of the harvest fill the shelves of local groceries and farmers markets, a colorful reminder of the many nutritional benefits of fresh produce. But growing your own produce offers equally sustaining, though perhaps less visible, benefits. Beyond reduced grocery expenses, gardening offers many positive effects financially. A garden may be a good way to improve... READ MORE
Need an escape? Try these classic movies
When many were rushing to rewatch “Contagion,” the eerily prophetic 2011 Steven Soderbergh film about the outbreak of an easily transmitted virus, I was searching for more comforting escapes. I reached for “North by Northwest” the way a baby grasps for a pacifier. Even in a pandemic, it’s incredibly hard to watch “North by Northwest” without a perpetual grin on your face.... READ MORE
