Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
This morning, I thought about the motivations that keep me going when days are dark. I thought about how difficult it is to persevere through troubles and tribulations. It isn’t easy. It never is. And I’ve made many mistakes along the way. So today, let’s talk about motivations. There are many things that could have…
Read MoreNOTE: Today’s blog post contains very coarse language and situations. Reader discretion is advised. Even though I don’t have to protect this clown’s identity if I don’t want to … for the balance of this story, you will know him as Art. Art was about three or four years older than me, and when I…
Read MoreSo here’s the plotline. Five young men and women – all orphaned – wake up in a room unlike any other. Staircases that go long distances to nowhere. And a red food machine that will only dispense nutrients if the teenagers perform specific gestures. Forget Hunger Games or Twilight or any of the other dystopian…
Read MoreThe weather’s going to get warmer. I’m already loading my cameras with film. And I’m off to make those journeys. There are moments in my life where, when I take a picture of an object or a skyline or a horizon or an anything, I imagine a tranquility in my life. It’s something I’ve felt…
Read MoreI’ve learned through the years to accept failure. I don’t have to like it, I don’t have to celebrate it, but I do have to acknowledge it. Failure can mean anything from my photos not getting accepted into a show, to missing out on a trivia competition, to drawing four kings in poker and losing…
Read MoreTeri Conroy is a very good friend of mine, she operates a hobby farm in Altamont that is home to more than a dozen llamas (along with chickens and an alpaca). With homage to her previous life as a writer of children’s books, she named the farm Wunsapana Farm. Say it five times fast, you’ll…
Read MoreIt was ten years ago – way back when my blog was hosted on a do-it-yourself blogspot.com blogging platform – that I first met Greg Dahlmann and Mary Darcy. They were the operators of a Capital District-themed news and information website, All Over Albany. Both were friendly and encouraging, and they hosted my blog on…
Read MoreSix years ago, twenty young children finished their breakfasts, kissed their parents goodbye, and went to school. By the end of that day, twenty young children would never see their loved ones again. Because today is the horrible anniversary, six years ago, of one of the deadliest and most horrific mass shootings in American history…
Read MoreSomewhere in the inky night between sleep, slumber and somnolence, I had a dream. And although we all say we remember every part of every dream … in this case, I could only remember fragments. Unconnected, dissonant fragments – something about listening to the radio, and hearing George Harrison playing a song called “Pakistan Blues.”…
Read MorePastor Charlie Muller has achieved so much in his quest to make the Capital Region a better place. And this year, he needs your help. See, Pastor Muller has taken care of many young people over the years, those who have survived abusive home lives, or who need to find a better home than the…
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