Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
There are days when I spend my time thinking about where I’ve come from and how far I’ve traveled. All the abuses I took. All the damages I survived. All the drops of Krazy Glue I used to repair my broken heart. And yet … somehow … I’m still here. It’s almost as if my…
Read MoreI know we’ve been talking about the Bob & Ron’s Fish Fry restaurant closing down and all that, and I don’t want to beat a dead horse-radish sauce over it… But there’s still something that bothers me. Not about the restaurant, or the recipes, or the reason for the eatery’s demise. No. I’m talking about…
Read MoreIt’s Thursday night and I’m taking some “me” time for a dinner at the Halfmoon Diner. Sometimes I need to do things like this, just to recalibrate myself. I’m looking over the menu… hmm… lots of good things here… You know what… it’s just a normal evening, a normal time… I’ll just get something to…
Read MoreLast night I was going through the recovered files from a crashed hard drive. I was able to save all the old iTunes tracks and some archived photos. Everything else, so far, has been nothing but digital junk and deletions and temporary Internet files from ages ago. And then, nested in one of the folders…
Read MoreHe would be 49 today. He would have a wife, a couple of kids, maybe a dog. He would have his own house and run his own business. He would have served his country overseas, doing whatever it took for good. He would be a baseball fan. He would support local causes. Probably participate in…
Read MoreSo let’s cut to the chase. Rip the bandage off and hope that I don’t scream too loudly. None of my three submitted artworks made the cut for the Wild Center’s “The Forest and the Tree” exhibit at their Tupper Lake museum. I’m okay with that. Surprisingly okay. Now for those of you who have…
Read MoreBy the time you read this, I’ll be out the door, cameras in hand, heading for a very special location. And I’ll take pictures at that location. Day and night. Weekday and weekend. Film and digital. Standard and experimental. I’m not going to post the pictures online … at least not yet. Not until the…
Read MoreI have many memories of good meals and quiet reflection at Bob & Ron’s Fish Fry on Central Avenue. Last Wednesday’s news that the restaurant was closing its Albany location kinda hit me hard. I should explain why. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.jsLike thousands of Albany residents, I grew up on their fish fry dinners. I ate at the…
Read MoreI will never understand the minds of madmen. I will never comprehend why anybody would randomly kill people or take hostages to kill them or force demands. And for what? I will never find a way to make sense of all this. Suicide bombers. Assault rifles on patrons at a concert hall. Explosions outside a…
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I saw them just as I was headed toward the movie theater at Colonie Center. One of the holiday merchants, who set up a small pop-up store along the Colonie Center concourse walkway, had a small forest of them on display. Beautiful vintage ceramic light-up Christmas trees. You’ve seen them. A big ceramic green tree,…
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