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.

One of the most useful things my dad taught me was that emotions are not in the moral realm, they are in the same realm as color sensations or feelings of hot or cold: data about the world. My emotions are data about me, and the emotions of others are data about them, but they aren't "good" or "bad." This is such a useful perspective, because, frankly, with small kids you need all the information you can get.

There's not really a funny anecdote to illustrate this point, so I'll point to a blog entry that inspired me to write this entry.

Backhoe paddling on a barge

If you have a child that loves back-hoes and boats, they will love this video. It has a back-hoe being used to paddle the water, and thereby moving the barge in which it sits through a water way. There's even a train going by in the back ground.