by Susan Gates | Dec 7, 2023
What were you doing at age 31? IJM founder and CEO Gary Haugen was just 31 when he found himself in Kigali, Rwanda to bear witness to the graves of 800,000 Tutsi civilians hacked to death by their Hutu neighbors. As an attorney with the US Department of Justice and...
by Susan Gates | Aug 9, 2023
Late last year, my husband Peter found the boat of our retirement dreams. A boat that was every bit as “old” as we are! Our new-to-us Wasque was built in Martha’s Vineyard in 1980, just a few years before Peter and I were married in Wilmington,...
by Susan Gates | Jul 5, 2023
I am a picnic outfitter by trade. Did you know? For six years, I ran a brick-and-mortar shop called Vintage Picnic in a small fishing village near the Chesapeake bay. We stocked everything for the perfect picnic – save for food and drink....
by Susan Gates | Jun 8, 2023
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. Jer. 6:16. I love Japanese pachysandra (Pachysandra terminalis). Period full stop. It is a great edge plant...
by Susan Gates | Apr 19, 2023
Last night Maryland Public Television aired a documentary entitled, “Kent County’s Storied Landscape: Place – Past and Present.” Since I have three generations buried in Kent County and my husband hails from Chestertown, the county seat, we watched eagerly...
