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Over the weekend, I traveled to Canada for a photography assignment.  In order to reach my destination, I had to travel through Maine’s State Route 9 from Bangor to Calais.  75 miles of winding road, blowing snow, freezing rain and seasonally closed souvenir stands. As I drove the route, I spotted a few signs and…

I had some errands to run on Sunday – take some packages to the post office, talk with my tax preparer to get my taxes filed, get a roll of film developed at CVS – little things like that. So while I was in Colonie Center, feeling mid-afternoon hunger pangs, I decided to go to…

In my lifetime, I’ve driven every mile of the New York State Thruway – from New York City to Erie County, along with the I-84 connector and the Berkshire Spur.  Driving on the Thruway can be a long and arduous experience, but it’s an experience that, in essence, allows me to reflect on my existence. …

For those of you who, like me, are huge fans of Stephan Pastis’ cartoon Pearls Before Swine, you might get a chuckle out of reading today’s cartoon strip. In the cartoon, Pastis – who is a character in his own strip, along with his creations Rat, Pig, Goat, Zebra and the Crocodiles – laments to…

About four months ago, I played a game of Friday night trivia at Jessica Stones in Latham.  I wasn’t initially planning on going out that night, but when trivia host Ben Hovey posted a message on Facebook talking about the opportunity to play against a Trivia Bowl champion, a Summer Bowl champion and a perfect…

I’ve made this joke in the past – “at some point, I want to turn the Michelin around my tummy into a Schwinn.”  It’s an off-handed comment, a reference to controlling my weight and working my abdomen down to a more manageable girth.  And people would laugh and get the joke instantly. I made the…

I may have mentioned in the past that my grandfather, Charles Bragg, used to work with both the New York Central Railroad and, when that line merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968, he also worked with the Penn Central.  When I lived with he and my grandmother in Slingerlands, in a little house on…

Thursday morning.  I just finished delivering my Equinox Thanksgiving Day turkey dinners to a family in Fonda, and I’m on my way back to the New York State Thruway. And just then, I saw them. Three goats. In the middle of the road. Coming straight at my car. I slowed down.  I don’t need Cardachrome…

The alarm clock went off at 4:00 a.m.  I cold barely open my eyes.  Who wakes up at 4:00 a.m.?  What an ungodly hour… and in fact, why in the name of all that’s holy did I actually set my alarm for 4:00 a.m.? I slap the alarm clock and turn it off.  And as…