What’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 27 2025

Hi everybody, hope you had a good holiday this week, and are ready to face the world. I’m staying inside today – there’s plenty of snow outside and I don’t feel like chancing a trip on the slippery streets. So I’ll stay in and blog about this week’s great articles and photos on my personal blogroll.

Starting with …

• BLOGS FOR THE SEASON
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “The Second Best Day to Work.“
  • Richard Lakin’s blog, “Coffee and Words at Christmas.”
  • Emily Pratt Slatin’s blog, “The Son Dad Wanted And The Daughter Who Stayed.”
  • G. Jack Urso’s “Aeolus 13 Umbra” blog, “A Charlie Brown Christmas — The Vince Guaraldi Trio.”
  • The Sad Clowns podcast, “Ghosts of Christmas Past.“
  • The Saturday Morning Archive, “Christmas with the Lone Ranger (1956).”
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “Good News! Merry Christmas. Today We Honor The Army Of Good, The Cambridge Pantry Volunteers, And People Who Care..”
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “Seven Carols For Christmas.”
• BLOGS FOR TASTE
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “qwertyuiop?” (actually, it’s a biscuit recipe)
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “Roman Holiday wardrobe.”
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • Tim Jeffers’ Vintage Lens, “Into The Woods!“
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “Awards season.”
  • The Saratoga Woods and Waterways blog, “The Light Shines in the Darkness . . .”
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Best Television of 2025.”
  • The B&S About Movies, “Christian Mingle (2014)“
• BLOGS FOR THE HEADPHONES
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life!”, “Harnessing Curiosity and Ignorance for Innovation.”
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President Book Review.”
  • The Pine Hills Review, “I have trouble finishing things” by Michelle Matz.
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • The Emptywheel blog, “Much of Todd Blanche’s Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence.”
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “Baby be unhinged: President Pampers still wants Greenland, but he ain’t getting it.”
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • RIP Baseball, “Randy Jones (1950-2025).”

Have a great weekend, everybody!