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How’s your day going so far?  Are you still nursing that first cup of coffee?  Have you had a little breakfast yet?  Are you checking your wristwatch to see if you have a few minutes to spare? Of course you do.  You have plenty of time to spare. So sit down and enjoy this week’s…

And now it’s time for this week’s recap of last week’s independent community Times Union blog greatness.  Hmm.  Just enough time for a recap of last week’s blogs.  Sorta makes me sound like John Oliver.  All I need to do now is gripe about FIFA for 30 minutes to complete the effect. So you’re not…

So I’ve had people ask me, as I’m compiling this weekly Thursday step-aside to showcase ten Times Union bloggers and their works, “How do you determine the ‘Read This First’ entry when you’re trying to showcase all these blogs?” Simple. I think that the Times Union has a great collection of independent community bloggers, those…

Summertime is here.  Or at least the summer heat is here.  Cook, baby, cook.  Go out and fry those eggs on the hood of your car.  Not my car, mind you.  My Blackbird doesn’t cook eggs well. So what’s the best way to combat the heat? Grab a cold drink, sit down in front of…

Okay, let’s make sure I have everything.  Changes of clothes for the weekend?  Check.  Cameras and film and SD cards and lenses?  Check.  Six artworks for the Alumni Art Show at Reunions ’15 at Hamilton College this weekend?  Check. Okay, time to jump in the Blackbird, step on the gas and – WAIT A SECOND!! …

Up and at ’em.  It’s Thursday morning.  We’re close to the weekend.  We’re close to the end of May and the warm days of summer. It’s Thursday morning – and that means that it’s time to showcase the work of the Times Union’s community bloggers.  These are the bloggers who write solely for the love…

It’s one of those mornings when I want to get up, go outside, take a deep breath of clean air – and then run back into the house, saying, “Good Lord in the sky, it’s freakin’ freezing outside!!” Yeah.  41 degrees this morning.  In late May. Well, if I’m going to stay indoors until the…

As we completely skip over springtime and go straight into the summer, it’s time this week for another set of blog posts from the Times Union’s community blogging team.  Yep, these are the bloggers that consistently put out great posts for you to read, so let’s go through the vaults and see what blog posts…

I’ve got a great batch of blogs from my fellow Times Union community bloggers, and you really should read them, this batch contains some great writing and fantastic observations. So here’s how this works. I go through all the community blogs for the past seven days. And if there’s an article that catches my attention,…

Once again, it’s time for me to take a back seat from my personal thoughts on my blog, and share with you the voices of ten of my fellow Times Union community bloggers.  This is the time when I share with you their ideas, their thoughts, their concerns, their observations, their snarks and their reflections. …