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Sunday morning.  With all the depressing, horrible, unfathomable news – both in my life and around the world – I needed some private time.  And that “private time” meant bashing up a wooden crate for a future crate art project. After taking out my frustration on the scrap wood box, I realized I would need…

It’s been four months since the Albany Times Union and I parted company, and I left their blogging portal.  In those four months, I’ve continued to write and blog and photograph, and I’ve moved toward new goals and new pursuits – as well as a new audience. But lately I’ve received several phone calls from…

You know that old saying that “money doesn’t come for free”? Yeah.  I think that’s going to happen to me when I file my taxes next year. Let me explain.

Yesterday, I needed to take care of some errands.  And one of those errands involved returning some framing materials to the local A.C. Moore hobby shop in Latham.  No big crisis – I bought too many products for my project, and I wanted to return the unused portions and put that money back on my…

Here’s my issue with telemarketers and cold calls.  They give you this whole crock about how they love your (writing, photos, look) and they want to (promote your work, hire you for events, cast you in a movie), and although they (have no budget, want you to pay, still want you in the movie), they…

I think there is a White House staffer who has, on his wall, a little poster that says, “Kellyanne Conway has not embarrassed the President for three days straight.  The record is four days straight.” I say that because yesterday, when President Trump was meeting with presidents and chancellors and leaders from historically black colleges…