Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Yesterday morning, I dropped my clothes off at a local wash-dry-and-fold laundromat in Albany. Figured if I gave the laundromat my clothes in the morning, by the afternoon my clothes would be ready for pickup. Well … when I arrived at the laundromat at 5:30 to claim my clothing… There was an additional guest at…
Read MoreOf late, I’ve discovered the simple pleasures of birding. No, I’m not traveling into the woods, a pair of binoculars strapped around my throat, hunting for the elusive yellow-bellied sapsucker. But on occasion, whether I’m visiting a friend’s house or spending time at a comfortable bed and breakfast, I’ve caught nature’s winged beauty through my…
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Last month, while on vacation in New Hampshire, I visited my Aunt Elaine’s antiques store in Center Tuftonboro. Her place, Golden Past Antiques, is a nice little hideaway with rooms and rooms of antiques and treasures. Tucked in one of the rooms was an old Planters Peanuts burlap bag. Yep. I purchased it. But in…
Read MoreSo six postcards arrived in my mailbox Saturday evening. Three from the photo discipline, three from arts and crafts. Let’s check the arts and crafts section first, shall we? The first card I checked was my Saratoga Vichy Table, a piece of furniture that was crafted from two Saratoga Vichy crates. And the piece was…
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I was recently gifted a Dremel rotary tool, and so far I’ve been having a good amount of fun with it. And yes, I still have all 9 1/2 of my fingers in the process. 😀 That being said, I’ve started watching some YouTube videos to see what kinds of things a person can do…
Read MoreAt 2:00 yesterday, I had a lazy Sunday planned out. I would test out my new Dremel tool on some wood, maybe make myself some dinner, conk out later and call it a day. By 2:30, I was making plans to go see Amy Schumer perform in Schenectady. You heard right. Apparently Amy Schumer would…
Read MoreI participate in Reddit’s gift exchanges – you know, the “Secret Santa” where you send a package to person A, while person B sends you a package. The gifts are supposed to be thoughtful and reflective of a person’s needs, wants, concerns and desires – in other words, if you’re a Firefly fan, sending someone…
Read MoreLook at that sweet project. Two months of stitching and trimming and re-stitching and counting and updating and the like. Done. My third – and final – burlap stitching project is complete. This burlap project, featuring the Fort Orange Dairy and Feeds logo from an old feed store on Arch Street in downtown Albany, was…
Read MoreAh, Sesame Street. That classic preschool show that everybody at one time or another watched as a kid. Well, way back in the day, before Sesame Street was essentially the Elmo show, they had a ton of very surreal and psychedelic video and animated clips that featured counting and letters and other pre-school learning tricks.…
Read MoreThis ought to be fun. I recently acquired a 100-pound burlap sack from Fort Orange Dairy in Albany, New York. Fort Orange Dairy was a brand of farm and poultry feeds and seeds, produced by Barber & Bennett, who had their offices at the corner of Arch and Church Streets in Albany. Here’s an old…
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