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Hello CTB Family, Your friendly neighborhood self-appointed Bishop here. Today I’m going to get serious on you. It was a hard morning for my family. I want to talk about the MSAs, or the Maryland School Assessment test. On a normal day of school my son’s classroom is focused on challenging the kids to create, […]
Hello CTB Family! Your friendly neighborhood self-appointed Bishop here with a little advice. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of interviews. My company is hiring and candidates have been coming out of the woodwork. Meeting some of these people has been an extremely informative experience. I would like to share you four tips I’ve learned as an interviewer on […]
Hello CTB Citizens, Your friendly neighborhood self-appointed Bishop here. Are you awake yet today? I have a feeling many of you are still face-down on Cross Street trying to come out of the coma the Super Bowl induced last night. Stand up! Brush yourself off! I’ve got a hypothesis I need you to consider. I, […]
City that Breeds Family, something happened last week that has left me sad, frustrated, and pondering the state of discourse in our culture. To be clear, I ain’t takin’ sides. I’m pissed at both camps. Everyone involved is behaving like immature jerks. The issue that has me so fired up is the conversation that has […]
Recently I, your friendly neighborhood self-appointed Bishop of the CTB, took my wife to see Les Miserables. Note I added the statement “took my wife”. This was my attempt to preserve some semblance of old school, Mad Men masculinity. But we are beyond pretense now. Right? We know each other well enough to be completely honest […]
Fellow citizens of the City that Breeds, we’ve all heard that when it comes to gifts “it is the thought that counts.” I love this phrase. It is a good and strong phrase; a useful saying, especially during the holidays. When I unwrap a box of shit I don’t want, this beautiful phrase is even, dare […]