What’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 23 2024

What’s all this white stuff outside my home?

Running to check the calendar … yep, supposed to be spring.

Then again … I live in the Northeast, so I should expect snowstorms when I least expect them.

And by typing that, I just realized that I did the same thing over 40 years ago when I wrote my first term paper in college, and I used the line “Usually these things get off to an unusual start,” and my English professor heckled me for it that day – and used that as a “Don’t write like Chuck Miller” lesson in his classes for the rest of his teaching career. Yeah, I blogged about it.

A surprise response from Professor O’Neill

But before I go outside and shovel the walkway and wipe the snow off my car … let’s get to the blog recaps, shall we?

• BLOGS FOR TASTE
  • Bill Dowd’s “Notes on Napkins,” “Bye-I Brewing confirms consolidation move in Cohoes.“
  • Jerry Papandrea’s “DerryX” portal, “Does the BEST Italian Sub in My Area Stack Up?“
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • The Saratoga Woods and Waterways blog, “Skunk Cabbage Paradise!“
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “Das verpacken.“
• BLOGS FOR HISTORY
  • The Albany history blog “Hoxsie!”, “Schenectady’s Prize-Winning Student Photographer.“
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Favorite Songs by Favorite Artists (Series Three) #9: Earth, Wind & Fire.“
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “Spring Equinox.“
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “Woof?“
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “Outside.“
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • G. Jack Urso’s “Aeolus 13 Umbra” blog, “Year 1999 A.D. (1967).“
  • The B&S About Movies blog, “Incredibly Strange Films: Motorpsycho (1965).“
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “From a Bird’s Eye View (1970).“
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “Flashback Friday: Blazing Saddles (1974).“
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • Thomas Slatin’s blog, “Digital Immortality.“
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal blog, “Help Feed Families and their Children: Pantry Needed Food of the Day.“
  • Greg Thomas in the “Tune In to Leadership” blog, “Can the Race-ism Dilemma Be Resolved?“
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life,” “Personal Struggles to Mental Health Advocacy Featuring Zane Landin.“
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • The Capital Region Fun blog, “Straddling Spring and Winter.“
  • Aaron Bush’s “Aaron Knits,” “I spy with my eagle eye…“
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “Some Other Spring.“
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “Why do we remember some things but not others?“
  • Amelia Desertsong in the “Obscure Curiosities” portal, “Worst Fears: A Magic the Gathering Card as Metaphor for Losing Control in Life’s Bitter Game.“

Have a great weekend, everybody – and give me a minute while I bundle up like the Michelin Man and go shovel my walkway!