Category: Living for the Weekend

All the great works of art, the cathedrals – the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. Pope Benedict XVI Perched at the window of our 7th floor office my coworkers and me for years looked out the window […]

“Hang on to the world as it spins around just don’t let the spin get you down. Think of moving fast hold on tight and you will last. Give your self-respect, your manly pride. Get yourself in gear keep your stride. Never mind your fears brighter days will soon be here. Take it from me; […]

“Always choose to heal, not to hurt, to forgive not to despise, to persevere not to quit, to smile not to frown, and to love not to hate! At the end of life, what really matters is not what we bought, but what we built, not what we got, but what we shared, not our […]

“I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until; at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky […]

Summer 2017 was a celebration of birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and sadly funerals. Living for the Weekend is dedicating this column to my dear friend Corrogan Vaughn, an avid reader of this paper and column who died so unexpectedly. Corrogan was a political leader who represented the city and State of Maryland with pride, although he […]

“There’s a time of the day when the sun is going down, that’s the golden time of day. It’s a time that the sun turns gold all around, that’s the golden time of day. At the end of the day when the wind is soft and warm, don’t it make the flowers sway? When the […]

“There’s a time of the day when the sun is going down, that’s the golden time of day. It’s a time that the sun turns gold all around, that’s the golden time of day. At the end of the day when the wind is soft and warm, don’t it make the flowers sway? When the […]

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer those days of soda and pretzels and beer. Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer. Just fill your basket full of sandwiches and weenies then lock the house up, now you’re set…You’ll […]

“What the world needs now is love sweet love, it’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. What the world needs now is love sweet love, no not just for some but for everyone. Lord, we don’t need another mountain, there are mountains and hillsides enough to climb, there are oceans and rivers […]

“There’s a time of the day when the sun is going down, that’s the golden time of day. It’s a time that the sun turns a gold all around, that’s the golden time of day. At the end of the day when the wind is soft and warm, don’t it make the flowers sway when […]

“The summer smiles, the summer knows, and unashamed she sheds her clothes. The summer soothes the restless sky and lovingly she warms the sand on which you lie. The summer knows, the summer’s wise, she sees the doubts within your eyes and so she takes her summer time. Tells the moon to wait and the […]

“The celebration… you cannot practice it or anything. It’s a moment when the excitement of your goal makes you react to the moment.” -Peter Bondra “I think I always had a lot of confidence in this horse but I didn’t have the opportunity to ride the horse. Then Mr. Brown gave me the opportunity to ride […]