Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I think I’ve developed a new “season” in my photographic life. There’s “Competition Season,” where I enter my photos in various shows. There’s “Charity Season,” where the sale of some of my works help charitable endeavors. And I think I’ve organically developed “Railfan Season,” where I spend wintertime chasing various railroads around the Northeast, and…
Read MoreGood morning, everybody. Hope your mid-November weekend plans are pleasant and that you’ve got everything under control. And by “under control,” I mean that you’re not doing anything out of the ordinary until you take a moment and enjoy this week’s blogroll recap. There’s plenty of good stuff here, so let’s get started right now.…
Read MoreThe kindest thing I could ever say about Megyn Kelly is that she has this unerring ability to use “weasel words” to back up her spurious and specious and two-sided claims whenever necessary. And yesterday, her discussion about – and, apparently, defense of – sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was full of such weasel-worded bilge. This…
Read MoreEarlier this year, the Albany Patroons family lost one of their own – longtime Patroons assistant coach (and later head coach) Charley Rosen passed after a long battle with cancer. And earlier this week, the Patroons mounred the loss of former player and head coach Micheal Ray Richardson. The old adage is that death comes…
Read More“Did you hear about Sugar?” the text message read. At that moment … I knew what that message could mean. I responded back. “Please don’t tell me he died.” Even though I feared the answer. But it was true. Micheal Ray Richardson, former NBA superstar who went from legend to drug addict to recovery to…
Read MoreIn 2024, I “retired” from the competitive team trivia community. After fifteen years of answering questions about every imaginable topic (and getting most of them correct), I felt that my playing time had run its course. Then, last July, one of my friends asked if I would consider being a substitute host for him; he…
Read MoreI don’t know about you … but I feel like I’m moving faster and faster on this project. I sit down after dinner, grab the canvas, and start hooking. I take a Saturday morning, go run my morning errands, come back home, and start hooking. I mean, this was where I was last week at…
Read MoreI’ve entered Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT charitable auction for the past fifteen years. The artwork sales help preserve local Albany architecture and history, as part of the mission statement from Historic Albany Foundation. And this year, I entered two artworks. One photograph and one mixed-media collage. Time to check out how things look. This year’s…
Read MoreGood morning early birds, time to get those worms. Or at least that’s what my Alexa app tells me each day. So there’s that. How about we get straight into the blogroll recap and see what our fellow writers and bloggers and photographers and podcasters are doing this week? Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read MoreThere are holiday traditions that raise our spirits and prove to us that we can be kind and supportive to our neighbors and strangers. This is one such tradition. Ten national heritage and tourist railroads, including the local Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson Railway, will once more participate in the “Operation Toy Train” charity fundraiser. Each…
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