Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 As things move slowly toward reopening, and I mention this tongue-in-cheek, since no one really knows what that means, I look with a forlorn eye to my dog. If you do not know already, I love my dog Winston. He is the most pitifully adorable maniac of a doodle… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 (May 7, 2020) As the pandemic trudges on, it becomes obvious that our lives simply will not be the same even after all of this blows over. There could be a miracle cure in a matter of weeks, or as has been the case with other viruses and bugs, a… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 So, what else needs to happen in this strange, new world of ours? How many more weeks, months or years must we lay in hiding before we can arise above the ashes? This episode has been taxing on all people; truly something that has not happened in our lifetime. … Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 (April 16, 2020) Oh, what a wild ride this has been. My heart goes out to those north of us who were just battered by the recent nor’easter, but I am glad that we dodged the bullet on that one. Minus some trees down, I know that many of… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 As I sit here on Day 18 after closing the restaurant, I sip my black coffee, eating Genoa salami on wheat with Duke’s mayonnaise and spicy brown mustard. Ah yes, the German side comes out of me on such rainy mornings … occasionally, that is. Next, I have to… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 “I dare say, this is the best cup of coffee that I have ever had.” Her father raised one eyebrow inquisitively while his daughter (my then-girlfriend) burst out in laughter, and the rest of the guests were stupefied that a 25-year-old would say something so seemingly archaic and, well, elderly…. Read more »
By Paul Suplee If I ever approach you with a plate of food and say something akin to, “Try this. It’s stupid,” that means that I am fully confident that you will relish in the decision. In this case, ‘stupid’ means stupendous or amazing in all things flavor. And that is not to say that… Read more »
By Paul Suplee I wake up starving. by stomach is grumbling as I stir in this comfortable bed in Atlantic City. Here for a food show, I think about the money I won on the blackjack table last night and then immediately my mind goes to dinner. Oh, dinner. Oh, you comedy of errors. For… Read more »
By Paul Suplee “In like a lion, out like a…” Oh, shut up, March and go home. You’re drunk. Usually one to moderately mock people who publicly and regularly bemoan the winter season, I am now ready to raise my pitchfork to Mother Nature and demand summer! Of course, I do remember past springs when… Read more »
By Paul Suplee The question remains, is spring ever going to come? We all know that it is, but we are in that two to three-week window where everyone is tired of the cold and just waiting for some good news from the weatherman. Of course, waiting on reliable, good news from the weatherman is… Read more »