Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
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…
Read MoreMy Hamilton College alumni magazine arrived in the mail a few days ago. While I eventually read the quarterly glossy publication from front to back, I always check the following things first: I check the weddings and births, to see if there are any future Hamiltonians that are 18 years away from matriculation. I check…
Read MoreEvery so often, I get this urge to downsize my life. Which, for some odd reason, is why I drove to my college alma mater, Hamilton College, last night. Background. In 1985, after four years of study and struggle, of challenges and character, I received my college diploma from Hamilton’s president at the time, J.…
Read MoreOh look, my Hamilton College alumni magazine arrived in the mail yesterday. Every four months or so, I get a glossy magazine from my college, letting me know what’s happened on campus lately, what’s going on with my fellow classmates and graduates, and the like. I always check the main stories in the alumni magazine,…
Read MoreMy friend and fellow Hamilton College alumnae Laurie Northrup posted this extremely heartwarming story on her weblog, The Consumerist. Suffice it to say that someone ordered one iPad from Best Buy for the holidays. Best Buy accidentally sent the customer FIVE iPads. You need to read the Consumerist blog post to find out more about…
Read MoreWhy was the New York Daily News frantically e-mailing me on Wednesday night? It’s not like I was looking for a subscription or anything like that. The newspaper contacted me because they wanted to use one of my photos of the Hamilton College Chapel for an upcoming story – apparently rock singer Jon Bon Jovi’s…
Read MoreSunday, October 28. The pre-Superstorm Sandy sky was surprisingly calm, and I had plenty of shootable 120 camera rollfilm in my freezer. Yep, the freezer is where all photographers should keep their film, so that it can be used without worrying about it going too far past its expiration date. Don’t laugh at me, you…
Read MoreI know I’ll see them soon. It’ll be one crisp, cold morning, as I wake up, and peek through the Venetian blinds at the window next to my bed. Snowflakes. The tears of angels. The clarions of winter. They’re on their way. That first day will be a test run for them. A few flakes,…
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Chuck The Writer 
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