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1 month ago | 
baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland
When I was a kid, my parents went to an auction and bought a pallet of bricks. We lived in a brick house, and they wanted to put in their own patio, but trouble arose getting the bricks home. My mother would retell the story of how the car stalled when the trailer they were hauling got two flat tires up a steep hill, on a blind curve on Falls Road. Consternation, yelling, and threats of divorce ensued.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
wheatoncollege.edu | Christianna McCausland
When Anna Schulz ’02 imagined her life after Wheaton, she thought she might become a politician leading policy in a government office or a professor fostering critical thinking on a college campus. She never dreamed she would become a key support for leaders engaged in critical multilateral diplomatic negotiations to combat global warming.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
baltimorefishbowl.com | Christianna McCausland
Parents share tales of the nationwide teacher shortage like veterans swapping war stories: the day their kids spent watching movies in the cafeteria because there weren’t enough teachers to instruct several classrooms. The time they were asked to substitute teach in the absence of qualified professionals. Classrooms that are overcrowded and teachers who are clearly under-supported.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland
Parents share tales of the nationwide teacher shortage like veterans swapping war stories: the day their kids spent watching movies in the cafeteria because there weren’t enough teachers to instruct several classrooms. The time they were asked to substitute teach in the absence of qualified professionals. Classrooms that are overcrowded and teachers who are clearly under-supported.
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May 8, 2024 | 
baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland
When Danni Donovan, master plumber and owner of Donovan WaterWorks, knocks on a door, she never quite knows what response she’ll get when the homeowner opens it. If it’s a female, usually there’s a sigh of relief. “But countless times I’ve had a gentleman answer, and they’ll say, ‘Do you know what you’re doing?’” she says. Donovan says it is unfortunate that her skills are often judged solely by her anatomy. But she usually falls back on humor.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland
When Lauren Uhlig moved from an apartment to a home in northeast Baltimore’s Hamilton Hills in 2016, she was excited about the four-by-eight vegetable bed in the backyard. Although she works as an architect, Uhlig was inspired to explore the local cut flower movement and, on a whim, she decided to try her hand at growing some roses. When she told people about her blooming aspirations, they all said the same thing: good luck.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland
Stepping into Found Studio Shop, a retail gift shop in Lauraville, feels like the most genuine hug from a friend. Everything is bright, fun, and comfortable—with just a touch of sass—which is exactly how owner Kacey Stafford designed it. “One of my favorite things to do is get together a collection of things that are beautiful and functional and bring joy,” drawls the Kentucky native.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland
A short hike up a grass path through a meadow brings you to a hilltop where two cherry trees create a pocket of shade. The view is mostly uninterrupted ridgelines covered in forest. It is here that, when his time comes, Dr. Howard Berg will be laid to rest. “I tell people this is a nature preserve where people happen to be buried,” says Berg, 70, a founder of Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum in Windsor Mill, the first of its kind in Maryland.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland
In the Baltimore Innovation Center on Wicomico Street, Stacy McAleer sits amid massive worktables surrounded by bolts of fabric, furniture in various states of disassembly, and cavernous walls lined with enormous spools of colored thread. A small group of men and women are busy measuring and cutting fabric, sewing it, and stapling it to furniture. This upholstery program is one half of The Cavanagh House (TCH), the nonprofit McAleer opened in 2019 that also includes a garment/fashion program.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland
Will Smith Makes Surprise Visit to the Enoch Pratt Free LibraryIf you attended the October 18th book event for Baltimore native Jada Pinkett Smith’s new memoir, Worthy, you received a bit of a bonus when Pinkett Smith’s husband, actor Will Smith, surprised her on stage. Earlier that week, Pinkett Smith nearly broke the internet when she revealed to The Today Show host Hoda Kotb that, though they aren’t divorced, she and Will have been living “completely separate lives” since 2016.
