Super Women: Deb Johns, the woman behind the Scout bag

December 7, 2014

Nancy McKeon

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What's Your Summer Uniform?

June 6, 2017

Janet Kelly

  Founder of Scout Bags, Deb Waterman Johns has been wearing the same “uniform” for the past 25 years. / MyLittleBird photo. A mom with two young daughters knows the necessity of keeping it simple. White jeans. At night, she…

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Family Greets Fall With a Down-Home (D.C.) Party

September 10, 2016

Nancy McKeon

…camp “bear”) and “camp cook” Becky Quinn get into the proper Go Bo spirit. / MyLittleBird photo. You can’t say the summer camp theme wasn’t carried through! Ben and Deb Johns borrowed canoes and kayaks from friends and neighbors. /…

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A Uniform Advantage

June 13, 2017

Catherine Clifford

…the problem of finding something to wear. Did they have a streamlined uniform of interchangeable black Petit Bateau Tees, cargo shorts and Converse sneakers a la Deb Waterman Johns of Scout Bags? Managing Editor Nancy McKeon said her look was…

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What a Night at the Shop Opp!

November 5, 2015

Janet Kelly

SEE THE PHOTOS from MyLittleBird’s pre-holiday gift-shopping extravaganza at Dock 5 at DC’s Union Market. Sophie Blake selling her awesome jewelry. In the background, Sophie’s assistant Kay helps LittleBird Janet pick a custom lipstick color from vendor Finding Ferdinand. /…

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Nail Biter? Hair Fiddler? You Could Be a Perfectionist.

April 13, 2015

Mary Carpenter

…be formed to make the new response more automatic than the old habit. My friend Deb, who struggled with hair-pulling for years, found the best relief from medication – but she didn’t like the side-effect of sleepiness. Ultimately, cognitive-behavior therapy…

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Update 2022: Lyme Disease

August 22, 2022

Mary Carpenter

…Posted last May on the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center site: “We are hopeful that the tremendous resources for long-haul Covid research could help accelerate Lyme disease knowledge and treatments as well.” Long-lasting Lyme symptoms may be more likely…

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Altered States

August 31, 2020

Janet Kelly

…mechanism in depression. Bypassing the DMN puts the ego out of commission by dissolving boundaries between self and the world, according to John Hopkins psychologist Matthew Johnson, who researches the effects of psilocybin (magic mushrooms). What Johnson calls a “primary…

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A Nose Job in Costa Rica, Root Canal in Mexico

January 13, 2020

Mary Carpenter

…“global collaborations,” Johns Hopkins works with hospitals in Brazil, China and Columbia. Johns Hopkins also provides a “special concierge” to individuals wishing to arrange medical treatment abroad. If choosing foreign facilities on your own, the most common advice is to…

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Kitchen Detail: Winning Horses Doovers

September 22, 2022

Nancy Pollard

…from mullet and amberjack.) Ricotta on Toast Serves 10 Not your normal store-bought ricotta. Smooth and rich, it makes a great layer for crostini and bruschetta. Recipe by Carol Fisch. Adapted from Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen blog. Ingredients 3 cups…

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Make Next Year's Bird Better

November 25, 2015

Nancy McKeon

…browse some old stories, from our Super Women series and our quick-flit travel pieces, links below. –All the LittleBirds Travel: Index to various stories Super Women: Paula Jagemann Aerin Lauder Deb Johns Ellen Proxmire Robin Givhan Nora Pouillon Elena Mekhova…

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Easy Pieces: The Wall Street Journal Got Us Thinking About Work Clothes

March 29, 2016

Janet Kelly

…around town taking notes, but you readers are OUR women! Which makes your choices important to MLB. Deb Johns, who with her husband heads up Bungalow, maker of Scout bags, and who runs Get Dressed, personal shopping and wardrobe consulting,…

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Does Microdosing Work?

June 6, 2022

Mary Carpenter

…same, and one-third get worse.” But for 15 smokers in an early Johns Hopkins study, psilocybin had a 80% success rate—compared with 35% for those helped by the leading antismoking drug Chantix. The success, according to some experts, is that…

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Therapy Goes Psychedelic

April 23, 2018

Mary Carpenter

…placebo and LSD. Under LSD, explained Carhart-Harris, “Many additional brain areas—not just the visual cortex—contributed to visual processing…suggested our volunteers were seeing things from their imagination rather than from the outside world.” Earlier psilocybin studies at Johns Hopkins found a…

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Mind-Altering Drugs Today

August 29, 2022

Mary Carpenter

…depression. What convinced long-time psychedelics researcher Roland Griffiths, now at Johns Hopkins, was the data. In the Netflix series, Griffiths refers to the Mystical Experience Questionnaire —repeatedly validated by research—that assesses individual psychedelic experiences based on 30 questions addressing positive…

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New Hope for Hard-to-Treat Breast Cancers

October 21, 2019

Mary Carpenter

…embryonic development. “Oxygen-poor environments like those often found in advanced human breast cancers serve as nurseries for the birth of cancer stem cells,” according to Johns Hopkins geneticist and Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza. Contrary to the earlier view that…

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The Magic of Mushrooms

January 11, 2021

Mary Carpenter

…a Johns Hopkins study of 24 participants that made the news in November, with “most patients showing improvement and half of study participants achieving remission through the four-week follow-up,” according to the Hopkins report. “The magnitude of the effect we…

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Not Funny in Maine

October 25, 2020

Janet Kelly

…now, but she’s from New York originally and she’s hysterical. Deb isn’t funny herself but at least she can tell when something is. And even my neighbor Dagmar, from Germany, is way funnier than any Mainer, and that’s saying something….

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