I’ve had this happen many times in my life.ย Breakups.ย Lost opportunities.ย The kind where you just want to go home, stop by a Stewart’s on the way and pick up a tub of ice cream and some soda and some candy, sit in front of the television, and pop a film into the DVD…
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A Memorial Day Blog Post: Victory Music
NOTE: I wrote the following article, which was originally published in Goldmine magazine in February, 1999.ย I wrote this piece after interview several members of the original V-Disc project, a program designed to bring music to World War II soldiers and sailors throughout the theater of battle.ย It is being reprinted here as part of…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 27 – Confessional
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreA Polar Panorama of Joe Bruno Stadium
Polar panoramas are way-cool photographic collages.ย You stand in a certain point, and then you take a series of photographs – take a picture, turn a few degrees to your right, take another picture, turn a few degrees to your right, until you’ve completed a full circle.ย Then you run the photographs through a stitching…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 26 – Smokey’s Pitch
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreWeek 15 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Sometimes the stars are aligned in just the right way. Sometimes the lucky penny lands right side up. And in last night’s round of trivia at Elbo Room, things worked out just fine for Street Academy, my trivia team. See, all tournament long we were booed, we were goofed on, we took a ton of…
Read MoreThis is what you do … and you don’t question it
This happened about two weeks ago.ย And I’m still thinking about it. It’s a sunny Thursday morning.ย I’m in the car, driving to pick up Washington Avenue to access one of the interstates.ย Truth be told, I was actually on one of the side streets, waiting for the traffic light to change from red to…
Read MoreRelay for Life trivia event at the Albany American Legion Post
Last night I attended the third annual Relay for Life trivia event, held at the North Albany American Legion post.ย Fun little event, and for a change of pace I was joined, for one night only, by Simeon Morrell, the captain of the trivia team Stern Fans (Trivia Bowl champions, 2008). That’s right, Street Academy…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 25 – Meeting in the Car
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreRest in peace, Jay Gallagher
To the family of Jay Gallagher – There aren’t words that I can come up with this morning – nothing I can write or create – that can even begin to reach the level of bravery and dignity Jay Gallagher exercised in his battle against cancer.ย He will be missed.ย His life will be appreciated.…
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