Imagine just turning sixteen. Your whole life is ahead of you. You’ve in the final years of high school, your parents are talking about teaching you how to drive, and that someone special keeps catching your eye and you’re hoping that you’re catching theirs as well. You’ve just turned sixteen. And if you’re just turning…
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The 800-subscriber milestone…
Six months. I hadn’t even realized the time few by so quickly. But as of yesterday, I am now up to 800 subscribers – 800 people who have linked to my current blog location, 800 people who receive, every morning without fail, a notification of a new Chuck Miller blog post. And for that, I…
Read MoreIs there a Confederate general in my lineage? And would I be happy with that?
When I was younger, my mother would tell stories about how, through one way or another, I was related to a Civil War general. Yeah, right. Sure. Next thing, someone’s going to tell me that because my last name is Miller, I’m related to the guy who sang “Fly Like an Eagle.” No wait, hear…
Read MoreAn insurance revelation
Last Saturday, the Savoy Taproom in downtown Albany held an amazing charity fundraiser to help the victims of the four Madison Avenue homes that were destroyed in a Monday night / Tuesday morning fire. Everything that night – from the cost of meals and drinks, to the entrance fees, to the silent auctions and raffles…
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A fundraiser for the Madison Avenue fire relief
Four houses were destroyed. Several families barely escaped with the clothes on their backs. The Monday night / Tuesday morning fire that tore through a block of houses on Madison Avenue was scary, it was frightening, it was devastating. Now it’s time for us – as a community and as good people – to help…
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From stress to structure: a sneak peek at an upcoming project
I have a theory. Okay, it’s more like a hypothesis, but I’m calling it a theory. When we encounter stress in our lives, we take that stress and use it as fuel to create something tangible. One of my friends, when she gets angry or frustrated, she cleans her house. Place looks museum-spotless every time…
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The Plan of Return
Last October, I journeyed to the Boreas Ponds, the newly-opened parcel in the Adirondack Mountains. It was an emotional adventure for me, as it involved a five-mile hike to and from the Ponds itself. I promised myself I would return some day and take more pictures at that peaceful, serene location. Then life interfered. A…
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Teri Conroy is a saint on Earth
Teri Conroy is a very good friend of mine, we met as bloggers on the old Times Union blog portal. She operates Wunsapana Farm, a “peaceable kingdom” farm with over a dozen llamas and other agrarian creatures, and the fiber sheared from those llamas exists as high-quality fabric sold around the world. She’s always let…
Read MoreDuck, Duck, Chuck…
Yesterday morning was Easter Sunday. It was also part of the week-long celebration of Passover. And where was I? Of all places, I was at Congress Park in Saratoga Springs, watching ducks along the little ponds.
Read MoreThank you. All of you.
I know it’s been a few days, and we’re all going through some changes of late… But in those moments, setting up this new blog portal and getting everything back to what would, for me, be a semi-normal state … I must say this to all of you. To everybody who supported me through this…
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