Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
In July of 1981, I attended a five-week pre-freshman orientation program at Hamilton College.ย Between that summer and the late spring of 1985, I was a college student at one of the “Little Ivies.”ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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?ย I think it was two minutes or less.ย Maybe 90 seconds if the parts spun freely. Yep.ย In the summer…
Read MoreMy Hamilton College alumni magazine arrived in the mail a few days ago.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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…
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