Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Dec. 8, 2022 Recently I started my 15th year in teaching. Four years at Worcester Technical High School was followed by 10 years at Wor-Wic. Now, I find myself on the beautiful campus of University of Maryland Eastern Shore. It has been quite a journey, but I… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Dec. 1, 2022 I feel as if Thanksgiving is still looming around the corner, awaiting our arrival or perhaps we are ourselves still waiting for the day to get here. Time is always a blur this time of year, between the holidays, the end of the semester… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Nov. 24, 2022 Steak and bearnaise. Has there ever been a more appropriate pairing? Indeed, yes there has, and I fell in love again last weekend. A couple weeks ago I made mention of having the privilege of tasting a 21-year-old Chardonnay, and it was magical. It… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Nov. 17, 2022 Oh, you thought I was going to write about turkey today, didn’t you? No, there is enough rubbish out there this month to feed a small army, or rather a massive one. You certainly do not need to read another thing about that magnificent… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Nov. 10, 2022 To build a wine cellar, or not to build a wine cellar. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to, once again, simply build a wine cellar. This is what vexes me on sleepless nights…. Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Nov. 24, 2022 Steak and Bearnaise. Has there ever been a more appropriate pairing? Indeed, yes there has, and I fell in love again last weekend. A couple weeks ago I made mention of having the privilege of tasting a 21-year-old Chardonnay, and it was magical. It… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Oct. 27, 2022 I raise my glass as I think of our broken industry, one to which hundreds of thousands of workers never returned after the pandemic. Short-staffed, short-tempered and exhausted, those of us remaining in the field simply try to eke out a week or two… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 It is finally autumn. Thank the good lord. Toe heads are all celebrating the easing off the SPF 50, relishing in the weather that makes this area so splendid to inhabit. Grilling on the beach is so much more fun this time of year — or at least to… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I do an awful lot of driving between the two restaurants, the Marlin Club and UMES in Princess Anne. I decided to get rid of my big redneck rig and downsize to a Toyota Tacoma and thank goodness that I did. It gets twice the mileage, which is a… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Sept. 29, 2022 When you think of empanadas, do you think of tasty hot pockets? That was always my assumption, as they were the only “empanadas” I had ever seen, some made with wheat flour and some with masa. Traveling through Mexico and Costa Rica over the… Read more »