Rafael Alvarez has spent most of his 52 years in Baltimore. He spent 23 years working at The Baltimore Sun, writing daily news stories on Baltimore’s odd collection of crimes and misdemeanors. Consequently, his journalism seems full of imaginary people and places, and his fiction reads real. And it all feels Baltimore. “My journalism informs my […]
Read More…When I met acupuncturist Dianne M. Connelly, I was a highly impressionable young woman dealing with tremendous spiritual dilemmas and an identity crisis brought on by years of being picked on for not being black enough and more than a decade of not being connected to a nuclear family. I was introduced to her by […]
Read More…One of the advantages of having data online is that it lowers the barrier to serendipity: you can stumble across something in these 500 billion words and be the first person ever to make that discovery. –The Official Google Blog, 12/16/2010 11:08:00 AM Only days after Google’s Books Ngram Viewer went live, I was hooked. […]
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