What’s Up in the Neighborhood, January 18 2025

Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. Are we ready for a long three-day weekend where we honor two great Americans (Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr.) before we have to kowtow to a third one? Just checking ahead. 😀

Well, no matter who’s in the Oval Office today or whenever, as long as I can draw breath in my lungs and type on a keyboard with access to the Internet, I can still provide you with a blog post at least once every day. And that includes today’s blog post, which since it’s ‘Saturday, recaps some great blogs and photos and information from my great pals on the blogroll.

• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • John Pavlovitz in Alan Ilagan’s blog, “A Scathing, and Brilliant, Letter to Carrie Underwood.“
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “O Albany, y?“
  • Molly White’s [Citation Needed], “Stop asking me questions like ‘where does the yield come from.’“
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “The Release of the Israeli Hostages; Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t.“
• BLOGS FOR INSPIRATION
  • Thomas Slatin’s blog, “Unbroken: My Journey from an Abusive Childhood to Elite Professionalism.“
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • The Saratoga Woods and Waterways blog, “My Pals, and Lake Bonita, Call Me Outdoors.“
• BLOGS FOR HISTORY
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “The Siena Senators.“
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “Flower Art, Flowers Bring Good News, See For Yourself, Thanks Shaboozey.“
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “Points of view.“
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “Pecos legs.“
  • Tim Jeffers’ “Vintage Lens,” “That Sinking Feeling!“
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • The B&S About Movies, “Midnight Vendetta (2001).“
  • The Saturday Morning Archives, “Another channel bites the dust, as Universal Kids gets ready to say goodbye.“
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • Ren Wilding in the Pine Hills Review, “Chickens in 1998.“
  • The Phoenix Desertsong blog, “The Plot.“
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “Bob Uecker (1934-2025).“
  • RIP Baseball, “Bob Veale (1935-2025).“
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Well, they call me the workin’ man…“
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “Today we became civil engineers.“
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life!”, “Embracing Change: Life Lessons from Stuntman Brian Hite.“

Have a great weekend, everybody!