Antarctica, Adventurer - Meg Adams
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Refugees determined to make it
The waiting room of the Baltimore Resettlement Center can be a hectic, busy place — even at 8:30 in the morning. Refugees begin to fill the center long before opening hours. Some wait patiently, holding children on their laps. Others are busy using the public phones and computers. more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 3/19/10 | 680 views
It's best to let life unfold
On a wild, fanciful impulse, I bought a Polaroid camera during the week I graduated from college. more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 3/12/10 | 292 views
Images of Haiti will persist
It has been three weeks since Dr. Beth Sloand returned from Haiti, but the images of the disaster-torn country still haunt her. Sloand, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 3/5/10 | 619 views
Ignoring the rules for stray cats
It’s a slightly awkward moment: My neighbor has stepped outside for her paper and has caught me petting her cat. more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 2/26/10 | 970 views
All plowed out but still snowed in
One week later, Baltimore is still recovering from the blizzards that made this winter the snowiest in the city’s recorded history, knocking previous winter records off the charts. more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 2/19/10 | 1961 views
Unbound by blizzard of 2010
Be careful what you wish for. I wanted snow — well, I certainly got it. more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 2/12/10 | 5854 views
Nothing’s finer than the Sip & Bite diner
From my seat at the counter of the Sip & Bite diner, I can feel the heat from the grill warm my face. The sounds of cooking fill my ears: the shlick, ting-shlick-ting of the metal spatula on the … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 2/5/10 | 2670 views
Perspective gained by volunteering
At first glance, the gathering could be mistaken for some kind of a multigenerational, intramural sports event. more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 1/29/10 | 858 views
Warmth, oh-so-close to the chill
"When life gives you January, make tea.” This was my mantra as I made a second pot of tea yesterday afternoon. more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 1/22/10 | 1207 views
A market that’s just like the city
Lexington Market, a historic food market on the western edge of Baltimore’s downtown, is the world’s largest continuously operating marketplace. It’s also about the closest thing to a snapshot … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 1/15/10 | 1070 views
Resolve to like yourself
One week down, 51 to go — how are those New Year’s resolutions going? Still holding strong? more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 1/8/10 | 1289 views
Looking up old friends a pleasure
On my first day back home in Maine for Christmas vacation I met up with a friend I’d known since preschool — and was introduced to his wife. As I approach my mid-20s, this is getting less … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 1/1/10 | 713 views
Snowstorms can provide perspective
Last weekend the snowstorm I was wishing for finally came to the mid-Atlantic — exactly when I was supposed to be driving to Maine. I watched anxiously as the weather reports got worse and worse. … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 12/25/09 | 1140 views
Hard times spark gifts of the heart
Some days it feels like crime and poverty are on every corner in Baltimore. With the winter solstice approaching along with the holidays, the colder realities of this city have never appeared … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 12/18/09 | 1303 views
Take snow for granted? Not here
It sounds very silly to say this after spending the last two winters in Antarctica, but I have missed snow dreadfully. more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 12/11/09 | 1722 views
Food, lights lift spirits in the dark
It has been a week since Thanksgiving, and I’m still working on leftover turkey. Carted all the way from Maine to Maryland, it is now in the form of turkey soup. I crossed eight states bearing … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 12/4/09 | 1115 views
A traveler gives thanks
I waited for the Chinatown bus in the rain on a forgotten corner of a Baltimore side street. When it finally came, the doors opened and the driver barked at me to get on, hardly looking at my … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 11/27/09 | 1569 views
Literacy key to life after prison
A month ago I had the chance to listen to a man read a passage from a book he had written. The man was a convicted felon, and the book had begun in his jail cell. R. Dwayne Betts, a boy from … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 11/20/09 | 1890 views
The Book Thing? Free for all
Tucked into uptown Baltimore, in an unlikely neighborhood marked by boarded-up windows and abandoned lots not far from Johns Hopkins University, is a rare, gem of a find. It’s called The Book … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 11/13/09 | 1532 views
Tradition of parents weekends
At college, Parents Weekend was when the dining hall served the best food of the school year and the grounds looked particularly nice. My first sleep-away summer camp had a parents weekend; we … more
By Meg Adams
Special to the NEWS | 11/6/09 | 911 views
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