Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
It’s Friday morning, and I’m cleaning out my car for its upcoming tuneup. Trash, trash, candy wrappers, soda bottles, Leica Green – Leica Green? Have I had my rangefinder film camera in the car all this time? I looked at the film counter. There’s still about 30 shots left in the camera. And the last…
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Six months ago, I purchased a new car. In keeping with my usual choices and preferences, I stuck with a General Motors badge, and the 2013 Chevrolet Cruze became my fourth personal motor vehicle. It’s been a decent workhorse – the car is comfortable, it has a great miles-per-gallon average, and the car has a…
Read MoreSo it’s Thanksgiving. I’m sure everybody’s ready to binge on turkey and stuffing, gather with the family and longtime friends, and watch three football games to finish out the day. Well, besides being Thanksgiving, it’s also Thursday. And around the TU blog portal, that entails another tradition. Yep. It’s independent blog wrap-up day. But before…
Read MoreI thought I could battle through this. I thought that by now, everything would be fine – or at least reasonably so. But that isn’t the case. And now I need to ask your help. Background. For the last decade, I’ve been in line at the crack of Thursday morning at the Empire State Plaza,…
Read MoreI know, I know. Everybody in the whole world has a Netflix subscription. I get it. And I don’t have one. I get that, too. Part of the reason why I haven’t acquired a Netflix subscription is because, well, I’ve always thought that there were already plenty of shows I could watch that didn’t require…
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It started last week, when I noticed something different about the phone numbers on my Caller ID feature from my BlackBerry PRIV cell phone. Normally, when I receive a call from someone, their phone number pops up as a Caller ID message. And if I’ve programmed their name into the phone, then their name comes…
Read MoreHow many of us have had a dream, a goal, a shining fantastical moment that we hope will come true? All of us have. And if I can take a moment from my blog to get personal, let me share this. This morning, my best bud Jeremy McNamara – my trivia teammate and long-time good…
Read MoreBefore thoroughbred horses can race, they must train. They train on private racetracks, they train on farms, and in Australia – they train on the beach. In fact, one of the most famous horses to train on the beaches between Warrnambool and Port Fairy was Prince of Penzance, who won the 2015 Melbourne Cup, one…
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I’m currently trying anything and everything to take my mind off my broken foot. I have to. Because if I can at least focus on other things, then I can get through another day and get one day closer to healing or surgery or repair or whatever. So I’m trying to focus on other projects,…
Read MoreSo what’s on the mind of the Times Union’s independent and community blogging team? What are their thoughts this week, their dreams, their desiers, their concerns, their fears, their regrets and their furies? Well, over the past seven days, here’s what they came up with. Right here in this blogroll recap. This week’s list of…
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