Best of Our TU Community Blogs, December 26 2013: Ten for Thursday

So I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas this year.  And as one last gift to you… I want you to enjoy the works of ten of my fellow Times Union community bloggers.  Hey, if you’re still shaking off that egg nog high, and if you finally figured out that it was Uncle Stanley who…

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My 2013 Christmas Card to all of you

I opened up several different holiday cards this morning.  Yeah, they’ve been arriving at my apartment for the past week, but I chose to save them all and open them today.  What an amazing, moving experience when you do that. As far as I’m concerned, this blog is more than just me typing my thoughts…

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Best of Our TU Community Blogs, December 19, 2013: Ten for Thursday

So who made the cut this week among the Times Union’s diligent community blogging team? Read on and find out.  They include: Mary Martin’s “A Good Enough Life” blog, “Holiday Stories and Reader Memories” (part 1) (part 2) Silvia Meder Lilly in the “Moms @ Work” blog, “Cassidy Bono Lilly ~ 4/11/01 – 12/16/13.” David…

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Best of our TU Community Blogs, December 12, 2013: Ten for Thursday

Back again with another ten blogs from the Times Union’s team of community and independent bloggers.  Read.  Re-read.  And enjoy. This week’s collection includes: Peter Bowden’s Gardening blog, “Yes Virginia there really is a Santa Claus.“ Walter Ayers’ “Faith in the Public Square” blog, “Senator Schumer and food stamps.“ Sonja Stark’s “Pilotgirl” blog, “Pig-Bladder Balls…

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Best of our TU Community Blogs, December 5 2013: Ten Twelve for Thursday

I can’t resist doing this… I mean, the holidays are coming up…  And normally I would do a “Ten for Thursday” blog post here.  But today… I’m feeling frisky enough to do a “Twelve for Thursday.” And I’m going to sing about it.  That’s right, folks, Chuck’s doing some karaoke to support the TU’s community…

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Best of our TU Community Blogs, November 21, 2013: Ten for Thursday

It’s time once again for everyone’s favorite TU community blog recap. And I want to make things perfectly clear.  If I could make this a “Twenty for Thursday,” I most certainly would.  Maybe someday I will. But for now, here’s ten really well-written blog posts by my fellow Times Union community blog writing compadres. They…

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The day Ken Screven and I met

I realize that new Times Union community blogger Ken Screven has reported on maybe fifty thousand stories during his stint as a WRGB reporter.  And I can’t ask him to remember all fifty thousand of them as if they were baseball statistics. But I do remember this one instance.  And it’s the time when one…

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