Well, hello, I didn’t even know this page existed until this morning(June 6th) when I stumbled on it….duh.
Well, a little background, I started writing Hamilton’s Habitat maybe a year and a half ago….because I was asked to by the folks here at WBAL-TV(I anchor the 5 pm newscast-we’re the NBC affiliate in Baltimore). And honestly, I wasn’t sure about it….people cautioned me, “What if you say something you shouldn’t…you can never take it back. It’s out there, forever!!” And that is true, but so far nothing terrible has happened and I have found I quite enjoy writing it and sharing a little of my life and insights(if you can call them that) with our viewers.
People ask me, “How do you think of things to write about?” I did struggle with that for a bit, and then realized, readers aren’t really looking for the most part, for broad sweeping pronouncements on the state of the world…not that I could do that anyway…but sometimes it’s just the little moments of life that we all share, that are the most important. And that’s what this blog is all about. I may occasionally rant about this or that, but it won’t be too earth-shaking. I don’t think. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’ll have to get it somewhere else. So, welcome to my habitat. It’s a pretty good place.
Donna, love the comments about Baby Girl. My daughter has a young cat (9 months) who goes from kitchen counters to top of fridge and then to top of cabinets. He is so lovable but also so bad about getting into everything. Her older cat is so sedate and never did these kinds of things and she is a little unsure about how to deal with this one. Good luck with Baby !
Donna, so how did the fruit flush work for you all? Thanks.
I need the website you mentioned in the story about the lost pet goat wandering on the bus. The goat was found because of this sight. You said you can really find anything on the site. Thank you
Angela, I was talking about Craig’s List…there’s one for almost every big city, and it is fascinating to peruse….and evidently you can even find a lost goat!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog!!! It’s so interesting and funny!!!
Oh Robyn, I’m blushing…..and I am so glad you enjoy my meanderings. Welcome to my habitat!
i hope to see you at artscape this year and since we last met i had tried acupuncture for my stuttering it work better than i or therapist thought. i would love to give more details about my experince about it. i have a totally different out look on life now. i don’t talk the way i used to or the way i would have hoped but its alot better than before i had it done. jim rader.
Dear Donna, Sorry to hear about your mother. I am sure it is hard to be so far away. Hope she is doing better. Love your blog and you on the news. Sue
Hi Donna!
I enjoy your health alert segments very much. Please send me the name of the surgeon that did the procedure to eliminate fat on the upper arms without surgery. It was aired on Aug. 4.
Thanks so much!
Gail : )
If you go to google and type in feline vets only baltimore,
it gives you a few choices.
I don’t know how close to you they are.
Dear Donna, I read your blog about looking for a new vet.
I have been taking care of my Mother’s cat for the past 5
years following her death. If you want one of the best and
most respected Feline Vetenarians in the area, I suggest
you contact Dr. Anne Sinclair at Cat Sense Feline Hospital
and Boarding in Bel Air. Her office is located at 332 South
Main Street, Bel Air, MD 21014. Her phone number is
410-420-0535. The compassion and love that she and her
staff have for cats is second to none. My cat recently went into congestive heart failure. I immediately took Buddy to her office for her assessment of him, and she sent me to the Towson ER Hospital off of Cromwell Bridge
Road in Towson. We made it there with only minutes to spare, but the cardiologist there was able to treat Buddy, and fortunately he is doing very good at this time. Dr. Rosenthal stated that Dr. Sinclair is the very best at what
she does.
Donna Hamilton
WBAL-TV 11
3800 Hooper Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21211
Dear Ms. Hamilton,
I am writing to you from Baltimore, MD. On the web pages of WBAL TV, I came across your blog entries under the title, “Hamilton’s Habitat” and surprisingly many were connected to food preparations. Considering your journalistic interests in matters connected with health, nutrition and diet, I should not have been surprised by your blog entries. Connected to the food theme, I wonder whether I can evoke your interest in a slightly unconventional, but entirely feasible idea of conducting experiments (please don’t worry – we are still on the subject of food!) in the kitchen. Interested? Please read on…
I have self-published a book entitled, “A Short Course in Culinary Experiments,” about vegetarian Indian cooking. This book was written with the aim of preparing vegetarian Indian foods with readily available ingredients (most are available in a typical US supermarket) and uncomplicated cooking methods. The book format also encourages the readers to experiment with various spices/methods; thus the word, “Experiments,” on the title.
I believe that this book will be of interest to those who desire to cook more healthy foods (no need to become a full vegetarian to enjoy vegetarian food!) and to those who desire a simplified way to cook tasty food. The book follows the dictum, “Simple is Tasty,” for the overall cooking philosophy. Since the viewers of WBAL in Baltimore are likely to benefit greatly, by following such a simple scheme for their diet, I felt that you could introduce this book to the viewers. The costs of foods have been on the rise, nation-wide, for the last few months. In this context, your viewers will also find that “Simple is Tasty” cooking theme will be friendly on the family grocery-budget as well. I would be pleased to mail you a copy of the book, if you would like to examine it. Please send a note about this to the e-mail address, mail@simpleistasty.com
Feature articles about the book and book reviews have appeared different newspapers, the most recent ones in, “Salt Lake City Weekly,” and a radio interview I did on the local NPR station (WYPR, 88.1FM). You can access the connected files from the web page: http://www.simpleistasty.com/Testimonials.html
I look forward to hear from you.
Sincerely,
S. Muralidharan
If any of your visitors to your blog are stimulated by watching DancingWithThe Stars, I have my own column on a dance www. site. click on Elita’s Corner and you can read about 30 stories all mostly on ballroom dancing ( the normal way) not like on DancingWith The Stars which is a show to showcase these stars of various interests and how they learned to dance in 6 hours. Real ballroom dancers learn to dance one hour lesson at a time probably once or twice a week depending on how much money they have to spend.
The real world of ballroom dancing is that way and then maybe one night a week at a social dance to practice and socialize with what they have learned.
I have been dancing for 32 years now and have 58 trophies and medals from my competition days. No one dresses like they do on Dancing With The Stars, no one acts that way and no one studies dance for 6-7 hours a day, 3 days or 4 in a row.
Let your readers go on my site and learn and enjoy the wonderful world of ballroom dance in the normal manner.
website for dancing is
http://www.dancingwith.renez.com
HEY DONNA I JUST READ ABOUT THE PUMPKIN EATER THAT YOU MAY HAVE AND I ALSO WATCHED THE YOU TUBE VIDEO. HOW FUNNY IS THAT. IF I SAW SOMETHING LIKE THAT I MIGHT HAVE SCARE IT OFF WITH A BB OR 2. NOT HITTING THE ANIMAL BUT TO SCARE IT OFF TELLING IT TO scram. JOKER
Thanks for the neat pix of the Obama Watch at the Museum – I just bought a couple of really cool Obama watches from a website called http://www.obamawatches.com and they are truly stunning (my biggest problem was picking a favorite – they’ve got 10 different styles!).
Go-bama!
Ms. Hamilton,
I look forward to your reporting on WBAL. There are some people that exude trust, honesty and courtesy. You are just one of a very few. Keep up the good work and let’s pray we all have a better New Year. Butch T
Dear Donna, I don’t read your blog regularly but just happened to read your entry about moving your mother to assisted living. I know exactly how it is to have a life time’s accumulated souvenirs reduced to a few boxes. We moved my mother from her home of more than 50 years into our house three years ago. Now she is gone- She went to live with the angels on December 16th 2008. We miss her but now we have the task of once again going through her “stuff” and really narrowing it down to what is really important. The family pictures are all that we really want. All the other stuff is just that-Stuff! I hope your mom has a peaceful time in her new home. And God bless you and your sisters for caring for her this way.
I have the awesome task of sorting through a lifetime’s memories in pictures- Many in Black and White!
God Bless
Michele Elder
I have a question about the segment which aired Feb 19th regarding the woman who began a fortune cookie business. Was the business started in the home? Do you need special facilities when producing food products for sale? I have often thought of a similar venture but I was told foodhad to be produced in a commercial facility if you were going to sell to the public. I would appreciate some information.
Thank you
Hi Donna,
Just wanted to say it was great meeting you and your husband and daughter at dinner Sat evening in Balt. Marilyn and I certainly enjoyed the conversation on family, careers, and education,…especially UAB! While the dinner was fantastic, we certainly enjoyed the 2+ hours we were able to share with you and your family!
Best Regards,….Ron & Marilyn
Hey Donna,
Just wanted to say, I enjoy your blogs, although I don’t always comment on them. I have a question for you, and I thought you’d be the perfect one to ask. My wife and I are taking some friends, who are visiting from St. Louis to the Inner Harbor this weekend. We’re trying to figure on a good place to eat there, that is nice, but not too expensive. We have eaten at the Cheese Cake Factory already. We’d like to try something different this time. Any suggestions
Hi, Donna! I like Alison love and truly look forward to your blog, I usually can’t get on it at work(blocked) so I figured I just missed something…and it was you! I think you seem like that totally cool friend that is always up for trying new things that I dont see very often….no I’m not a stalker, don’t worry, but keep up the blogging I truly look forward to it, it brightens my week and gives me new ideas of cool things to try!
PS I LOVE CHEESE!!!! thanks for the tip:-) Have a great one!
Thanx for the info about the B&B in NY. Sounds lovely and I imagine you could feel like a real NewYorker. One question – I read that the hotels in Manhattan have been having a problem with bed bugs. I’ve been afraid to spend a night in Manhattan since I read about this problem and really miss the shows. Was your B&B bed clean? Nothing like having accurate information.
I love your site. Keep it up !
Hey Donna
This is my first time to look at this and I have to read more about some of the blog, so far it is really good. Keep the good work up.
Mary-March 23, 2009 1:41pm
Hi Donna,
Oh, I can so relate to your surprise (anxiety?) about the wedding date moving closer. I came home from Italy last May and was surprised by my daughter’s announcement that she and her boyfriend of 5 years (not fiance!) were getting married in September. This was the daughter that insisted she was never going to get married! But I shouldn’t worry, she said, it was to be a very simple wedding at the courthouse and small reception at Pazo’s. Well, fiance (now!) did not like the courthouse decor when he went there to get their marriage license. SO.. to shorten the story, the small, simple wedding was held on my deck. (With a plan B – living room wedding if rain clouds arrived). I learned very quickly, where to rent chairs, engage a caterer for the “pre-reception” reception, order flowers, order champagne, find a dress. It did go very well all in all. It was a lovely day in May. I’ve learned that children, even 30+ ones, are always full of surprises.
I would like to test your memory about a story you did in the late 70,s here in Birmingham It had to do with a baby great horned owl,and the WILDLIFE RESCUE SERVICE. Do you remember this? It was for PM Magazine if I remember correctly. Please reply
Donna, it was interesting to see your son all grown up and getting married. He had swimming lessons with my daughter at the YMCA when they were toddlers.
Useless local news. Useless national news. Useless international news. Amazingly useless editorials. Did I forget to say useless?
Only broabcast news worth watching is Jim Lehrer and BBC on PBS. No good source for local news in Baltimore. Marc Stiener did a good job and look what happened. Daily Show is a good source of media commentary.
Donna, How was the beef stew your daughter made. Would really like to hear if she used an actual pan this time. God bless her for making the attempt.
Hi Donna,
Keep up the good work on the NO CAFFEINE-I quit caffeine about 30 years ago, doctors advice, and now when I have any caffeine, I’m like a wind up doll-that dosen’t run down! But I also feel better. Good for you!!
Mrs.Hamilton,
How would a private citizen find out how much money, gifts, trips, etc. that a federal elected offical recieved from lobbiest, also who those lobbiest repasented at the time the “the gift” was made and what the lobbiest and there client intertest was at the time the gift was made. Also the same information for state and locoal officials.
Thank you,
David King
Donna: I think you were very insensitive to have published the picture of Myrtle Corbin. How could this have made you so happy to receive it and how did it make your Mother’s day? If Myrtle were actually a close relative of yours, you would not have been so happy to print the picture. That picture was taken a long time ago and admittedly she was exploited because of her physical handicaps. You too have exploited her by printing the picture even though she has been dead for over 80 years. Look at the picture closely. Does she look happy to you? I’m glad you’re happy! BC
Donna -
Can you give me the name of the bus company you use to go to NY that is reasonable