Two Blair students are blogging for the Voice.

Pete Volk began writing about the Thunderbolts this past summer and has continued to follow the Blazers during the school year. If you want to find out the latest game stats and read expert analysis, go to http://www.silverspringvoice/takomasilversports.

Pete is a Blair senior, currently puzzling over which college has the best program for a budding sports reporter.


Gemma D'Eustachio has taken over "Inside Blair," the column that has been a franchise of the Kohn and Wolf families--until now. You can read Gemma's thoughts on high school and beyond at http://www.takoma.com/insideblair.

Gemma is a junior at Montgomery Blair High School. In her sophomore year, she joined the Voice team and has filed several impressive articles already. We look forward to reading her blog.

A particularly good blog by Catherine Newman

Ironically, when I met Catherine Newman, whom I've been an avid fan of for years, I was asking her a question at the very same time my daughter was sliding a chewed piece of gum up her nose. And my question was some ridiculous feverish question, the only thing my breathless star-struck brain could churn out while I was thinking "Wow, I am asking a question of my current favorite writer!"

Luckily, the gum was relatively easy to remove. And I felt very tied to by daughter by her action. When I was 6 or so, I slid a tooth that had fallen out of my mouth up my nose, much to the consternation of my baby-sitter. That also was removed without a trip to the ER, and now this nose-object tendency has been passed on. And in one of those existential moments when you create your values by your actions, when I started laughing about the memory of my own nose problem, my daughter asked me why I was laughing, and I decided to take the risk (of her trying the nose trick with her tooth) to tell her the story of my young nose rather than dissemble some safer answer.