I guess you want to hear all my musings on music, news, broadcasts, love, politics, feminism, life, photography, books, the media… well good luck with that. Hope you like what you find! This blog is often serious, but I also think I’m seriously funny. In addition to my musings, you’ll find recommendations to media and the occasional wild tale. It is, above all else, an experiment in continuous, growing openness.
My heart belongs to Baltimore, but I moved to DC in 2009. Hopefully my writing will be enhanced by newfound access to arts, culture, and public transit, instead of stifled by fluorescent train lighting and the sneaking suspicion that DC dwellers are all waiting to stab each other in the back in the name of getting ahead. We shall see…
Hey Kim, found your blog through reading some Baltimore stuff. The artist commune you live in sounds great.
Some friends and I are planning to move to b-more and begin a new kind of church which totally embraces those communal values, that’s why it interests me. i’d like to know how you work it.
If you’re interested in spirituality, we’ve started a discussion group in mount vernon every other tuesday if you’d like to join us. we usually meet a the brewer’s art.
have a good one.
peace,
Joel Kurz
Hello!
I found your site through googling “Copy Cat Building” cause I am interested in it but instead found myself here (which is not a bad thing!). I live in charm city as well and love your blog posts since they have that baltimore “bend” to them!
thank you & have a good day!
Hey Kim,
Great meeting you at the NPR taping a couple of weeks back – definitely the political race is getting very interesting and enjoy your blog websites. Hope your model shoot went well
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Hi!
My name is liz, I’m 23 in august and living in baltimore. I was looking up information on the copy cat building and found your site. I am also looking at the copycat as a place to live, opposed to my row home apt in mt vernon, and am frightened of it for the exact same reasons you were. I was hoping you’d be willing to email me and trade stories, maybe chat. I think we have a lot in common and it would be nice to know there’s someone so similar to me out there!
Hey, Kim, you may want to soften up a bit. You’re bound to look back at your haughty diatribe about desperate, selfish older mothers with a little remorse. At least I hope so. For you, that is. By the way, a 16-year-old should consider him- or herself lucky to have a loving 56-year-old mom to confide in. Kids are more sophisticated — and parents are more youthful — every day. Not to mention that having older parents will be so common for the next generation. You’re clearly smart and full of opinion. I suggest you pray for wisdom.
Remorse? No way.
I’m hard-nosed in general, I’ll be the first to admit. But I believe, if you go back and look at that post, I wasn’t disparaging older mothers. My problem lies with people who pump their bodies full of chemicals and hormones with the hopes of incubating a baby (especially given the number of babies needing loving homes). And I’ve never denied the wealth of wisdom an older family member offers, grandparent or parent. I wouldn’t trade my relationship with my Mommom for anything.
Much like my complaint with farmers soaking crops in growth hormones, or dairymen shooting their cattle with antibiotics to force milk production, my issue isn’t with nature taking its course. I object to these things that unnaturally force production. Babies included.
As for wisdom, isn’t that what we all strive for? As an aside, it’s amazing how much comment that post generates. As many articles as there are praising women who fight the odds with drugs and give birth into their forties, what’s wrong with presenting an argument against that behavior?
Well put Kim. Isn’t healthy debate a pillar of a democratic society?