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Baltimore Boomer

That’s how we got to Austin

September 30, 2021
By Paul McMullen
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Commentary, Uncategorized

Paul McMullen reflects on his journey from Baltimore to Austin.

What’s your favorite Christmas film?

December 17, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Christmas, Commentary, Feature

Paul McMullen shares some of the Catholic Review’s all-time favorite Christmas movies.

Knocking on Vatican door, ‘Heaven in Baltimore’ and honky-tonk heroes

October 21, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog, Commentary

Paul McMullen has a special connection to country singer Dale Watson, who plays himself in the new movie, “Yellow Rose.”

Grateful, for a relatively uneventful Holy Week, and my primary caregiver

April 3, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

Two years after quadruple bypass heart surgery, appreciation for caregivers grows, but still begins in the home.

Missing Coach Wootten, brothers Corrigan and others, but warmed by new life

January 31, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

An unusually mild January nonetheless left me chilled, by too many deaths.

Do you know the date of your baptism?

January 17, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

I experienced my first sacrament April 10, 1955, at St. Rose of Lima in Brooklyn. Father T. Austin Murphy did the honors, seven years before he became an auxiliary bishop for the diocese.

Turkey Bowl at 100: Enduring lessons from coach Brune

November 26, 2019
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

Under the auspices of the Jesuits, Brune taught several generations of young men the value of doing the right thing, doggedness, loyalty, patience and dozens of other seemingly passé traits.

Ode to Gerald Brown: This one hits close to home 

June 9, 2019
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

You have to live in a cave not to know a family or three who have lost a loved one to the opioid epidemic,  but for me, the violence infesting and dragging down Baltimore has never hit closer.

Just another stretch of coincidences in Smalltimore

April 4, 2019
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

Managing Editor Paul McMullen is in a stretch of work that’s reminded him why his hometown is also described as “Smalltimore.”

The house that Renee Buettner built

January 18, 2019
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

Amid the many influential coaches managing editor Paul McMullen encountered or worked with, Renee Buettner was a favorite.

Cycle of life, interrupted, for bad and then good

July 19, 2018
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

It’s been three weeks since a man with a grudge and a rifle shot down the doorway to the Annapolis Capital and murdered five of its employees, among them two colleagues. Every one of those 21 days has been required to process the mysteries of life and what can only be described as survivor’s guilt.

Look, up in the sky, it’s an eclipse

August 16, 2017
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

Whatever happens, darkness at the break of 2:48 p.m. Aug. 21 is going to be another grand moment with creation.

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