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How’s your week going?  Do you need some inspiration in your life?  Do you need some positive motivation, some intelligent discourse, some reinforcement of the belief that there is great blogging out there? Look no further than the Times Union’s crew of independent and community bloggers, all of whom have great stories to tell and…

Before we start this week’s roundup of the best blogging from the TU’s community and independent blogs, I need to pass along a shout-out to fellow TU independent blogger Rob Hoffman. In addition to running his popular “Hoffman Files” blog on the TU, Rob Hoffman has just released his first published book.  “The Hoffman Files:…

Something to share before we start our weekly TU blog recap and review. Yesterday, the Times Union added the first of what I hope will be a continuing series.  On the front page of timesunion.com, they list a feature called “What are Times Union bloggers writing about?”  And from this, they showcase almost two dozen…

How are you dealing with the summer heat?  Are you cranking up the air conditioner to Spinal Tap levels?  Are you bathing in blocks of melted ice?  Are you taking cold showers for no specific ulterior motive? Well, hopefully you will enjoy these cool blog posts from the Times Union’s best community and independent bloggers. …

I want to share something with you. Many years ago, one of my features in my blog involved rewriting and serializing an old college writing project.  I spread the novella over several different blog posts, scheduling chapters to appear three times a week.  It was a personal challenge for me – to not only update…

One of the things we get to enjoy about blogs are those moments when we can celebrate great events.  You know – events where the blogger can cross #17 off of their life achievements list.  Or when a blogger can celebrate a time of change or a time of improvement.  Sure, it’s easy to kvetch…

It’s so easy to blog.  What’s hard to do is to create something that’s readable and thought-provoking when the world is going completely stark raving mad. And for all the horrible, tragic events that occurred over the past few days… you need to read and appreciate and enjoy the writings of the Times Union’s independent…

Today is Thursday.  And in a hot summer Thursday, there’s something very important to maintain. And that is, of course, showcasing my fellow Times Union community and independent bloggers, who do so much to bring you fantastic content and information.  So let’s take a look around the blogfarm and see what’s happening, shall we? Lale…

Wow.  I overslept. That doesn’t happen that often. But this Florida vacation has done a lot for me.  I’ve had a great opportunity to re-center myself, to rediscover my balance and my directions.  That, and I’ve walked around so much in the hot sun, my body looks like I’ve used beet juice for a moisturizer.…