Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I’ve watched the weather report for days. Winter is coming so quickly, you would think that George R.R. Martin was a meteorologist. And it’s given me pause. Delivering turkey dinners on Thanksgiving is an important duty for me. But should I do it in a snowstorm? What if I get stuck in a ditch while…
Read MoreI spent the weekend watching Erin Davies’ second documentary about her rainbow-colored Volkswagen, the Fagbug. You know the story by now – someone spraypainted her Volkswagen with homophobic graffiti, and she decided to take those hateful comments and turn them into a message of tolerance and acceptance. Her first documentary about the car, Fagbug, did…
Read MoreEvery year, I’ve associated this charitable tradition – delivering turkey dinners on Thanksgiving Day for those in the Capital District who need them – as one of the most important and charitable functions I can undertake each year. And as much as I feel good about this holiday every year… Sometimes I get the feeling…
Read MoreIt was sixteen years ago and it felt like yesterday. I was working for Goldmine magazine, the record collector’s biweekly publication, and had been asked by my editor to come to Sharon, Pennsylvania to cover the inaugural class of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. And that’s where I first met Tim Hauser. Tim was…
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I woke up this morning, hoping I could get at least a photograph or two of the elusive “blood moon” lunar eclipse. I drove out to the Black Bridge, where I knew I could get at least a good shot of the moon before it hit the horizon. And at about 5:25, when the clouds…
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In today’s blog post, I talk about one of the most important verses in the Bible, one that’s often overlooked. Psalms 3:16.
Read MoreI know it’s on my birth certificate. I know it’s on my driver’s license. Still, only a few people in my life – a VERY SELECT FEW PEOPLE – ever get to call me those names today. And with good reason. We do not get to pick our birth names. By the time we’re out…
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I have a pair of pilot’s wings. In a long-ago time, airlines actually gave out little trinkets and toys to children during flights. Kids could receive little metal “junior pilot” or “junior stewardess” wings, as a souvenir of a successful flight. Today, I take these pilot’s wings from a little display shelf in my apartment,…
Read MoreSo far, the ice bucket challenge – where people film themselves as they dump buckets of ice water over themselves, all to help raise money and awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and a cure for same – has raised millions upon millions of dollars. Which is a good thing. Sadly, the challenge has also been…
Read MoreI woke up Sunday morning and put the tape around my body. I held it tight against my skin, as tightly as possible. What am I looking at? What will this tape mean? And at that moment, I thought back. Back two years ago, when I came up with the 49th Resolution. It was at…
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