A little bit of everything
Les Cohen is a long-term Marylander, having grown up in Annapolis. Professionally, he writes and edits materials for business and political clients from his base of operations in Columbia, Maryland. He has a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Economics. Leave a comment or feel free to send him an email to Les@Writeaway.us.
Surviving COVID has awakened and emboldened us. There’s a palpable sense, a natural consensus forming that we can do better – with the confidence to motivate us to take risks that, before COVID, were beyond what our naturally conservative nature would have tolerated. Change is in the wind, a reality that has not gone unnoticed by our representatives in Annapolis.
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Do you know what you need? You need a break. Not a two-week vacation. Just a little one here and there, in the middle of the day or night if you’re having trouble sleeping. One that doesn’t involve indulging yourself with empty calories or mindless television. Or that’s too expensive and more trouble than it’s worth.
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I’m just on the tail end of recovering from COVID. Yes, I finally got it. The good news is that I managed – through luck, thoughtful masking and crowd avoidance – to put off getting it until science gave me the vaccine and boosters to keep me out of the hospital, off the ventilator and, thank goodness, on the right side of the grass.
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The next time you feel the need to throw cold water on your brain, read one of these. They’re short, mildly addictive but in a good way, involve no depressing or scary news and no meaningless chitchat with co-workers or your supervisor – and they might just change the way you think and the work you do for the better.
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In 2021, Homicides and non-fatal shootings in Baltimore’s Western District totaled 168, then 111 in 2022 down 34%. These numbers support the claim the Mayor makes in his tweet, but let’s look at the data – for all nine Police Districts – from a less politically prejudiced point of view.
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Do you know what you need? You need a break. Not a two-week vacation. Just a little one here and there, in the middle of the day or night if you’re having trouble sleeping. One that doesn’t involve indulging yourself with empty calories or mindless television. Or that’s too expensive and more trouble than it’s worth.
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The Fed is raising interest rates to suppress inflation. Republicans in the House want to use a chainsaw to cut
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This fifth installment is called “Dialogue.” It’s a short-short story about a couple having breakfast on a Sunday morning. If you like what you read and would like to see previously published short-short stories, just click on the tag above the headline, “Except for a few details…”
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Congress tends to be a reactionary body in which members respond to legislation instigated by the President or introduced by a handful of their colleagues. Do they even bother to debate all this legislation in public, on the floor of the House or Senate?
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Do you know what you need? You need a break. Not a two-week vacation. Just a little one here and there, in the middle of the day or night if you’re having trouble sleeping. One that doesn’t involve indulging yourself with empty calories or mindless television. Or that’s too expensive and more trouble than it’s worth.
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