Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Recently, I’ve chronicled my battles with telemarketers and cold-callers and spambots. I’ve added a recording application to my BlackBerry PRIV cell phone (have I mentioned how much I love this cell phone?), and I’ve decided that if anybody’s going to bug me for money… they’re up for fair game. So last night, when I received…
Read MoreCollege students often are part of the chronicles of change. They march. They protest. They remove social errors and bring forward their own belief in a better world. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js In my time at Hamilton College, we students helped to bring around a change for the college. At the time, Hamilton was one of many colleges…
Read MoreBy the time you read this, I’ll be on the road with a precious cargo – six of my best photographic artworks – for “Drop-Off Day” at the New York State Fair. This seems to be part of an all-encompassing “drop-off-3-day-weekend” with my three entries for the Big E shipped yesterday, and my four (5)…
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The semi-gauzy illumination of the morning fills the cloudy, chilly sky. And deep along the wooden walkways of a small arboretum on the campus of a Central New York private college, I’m hoping that the photos I take this early morning will soothe my troubled, fractured soul. I’m here on the campus of Hamilton College,…
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In July of 1981, I attended a five-week pre-freshman orientation program at Hamilton College. Between that summer and the late spring of 1985, I was a college student at one of the “Little Ivies.” There were days when I felt about as out of place as Willy Loman in a summer stock production of Spamalot;…
Read MoreI want to tell you the story of how this album came to join the rest of the playlist that I wish to take with me to the next world. As a Hamilton College student in the early 1980’s, I was fortunate to spend my time with the campus radio station, WHCL. During my time…
Read MoreMy friend and college classmate Laura posted a message on my Facebook wall over the weekend, where she alerted me that the website bestcollegevalues.org chose their 50 most beautiful colleges in autumn – and of those fifty colleges, our alma mater, Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., made it all the way to #12. Yeah, apparently…
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In July of 1981, I was one of twenty high school graduates who spent a five-week semester at Hamilton College, prior to enrolling for freshman year. The program, known as the “Higher Education Opportunity Program” (HEOP), was designed to provide us an intensive college orientation, it gave us one course credit of the 16 we…
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Yesterday was muggy and half-sunny, half-cloudy. And all I wanted to do was just grab my cameras and drive somewhere, drive as far as I could and just photograph to my heart’s content. So what’s to stop me from driving to Oneida County and taking pictures at my alma mater, Hamilton College? Not much. Let’s…
Read MoreNo, I never solved it by peeling off the stickers or disassembling the device. No, I couldn’t solve one of them today if my life depended on it. My personal best time for solving it? I think it was two minutes or less. Maybe 90 seconds if the parts spun freely. Yep. In the summer…
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