Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Oh great. The guy in front of me at the Cumberland Farms is paying for his purchases with a bag of coins. Yay me. Like I really need this in my life. To her credit, the cashier dutifully took the bag of coins, counted out the currency, and handed the man his purchases and a…
Read MoreFrom 1981 to 1985 – my college years – I spent most of my free time buried in the basement of the Minor Theater, playing music on the powerful (well, it started out as five watts of powerful) WHCL 88.7 college radio station. You could only pick up the station on half the campus, and…
Read MoreI wanted to share a funny story with you. This happened about ten years ago, and it involves arguably one of the greatest hard rock bands of all time, AC/DC. You know, AC/DC. Crank up your speakers. That’s not loud enough. Crank them up to 11. What do you mean your co-worker is complaining? He…
Read MoreUgh. Rainy Saturday morning. Normally, I take my laundry to a wash-and-fold place in Watervliet, but since their prices recently increased, I found a different wash-and-fold place in Albany at the Hannaford Plaza. One basket of clothes later, I was on my way. Normally I have two ways of leaving the Town and Village of…
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It’s Friday morning, and I’m cleaning out my car for its upcoming tuneup. Trash, trash, candy wrappers, soda bottles, Leica Green – Leica Green? Have I had my rangefinder film camera in the car all this time? I looked at the film counter. There’s still about 30 shots left in the camera. And the last…
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Six months ago, I purchased a new car. In keeping with my usual choices and preferences, I stuck with a General Motors badge, and the 2013 Chevrolet Cruze became my fourth personal motor vehicle. It’s been a decent workhorse – the car is comfortable, it has a great miles-per-gallon average, and the car has a…
Read MoreSo it’s Thanksgiving. I’m sure everybody’s ready to binge on turkey and stuffing, gather with the family and longtime friends, and watch three football games to finish out the day. Well, besides being Thanksgiving, it’s also Thursday. And around the TU blog portal, that entails another tradition. Yep. It’s independent blog wrap-up day. But before…
Read MoreI thought I could battle through this. I thought that by now, everything would be fine – or at least reasonably so. But that isn’t the case. And now I need to ask your help. Background. For the last decade, I’ve been in line at the crack of Thursday morning at the Empire State Plaza,…
Read MoreI know, I know. Everybody in the whole world has a Netflix subscription. I get it. And I don’t have one. I get that, too. Part of the reason why I haven’t acquired a Netflix subscription is because, well, I’ve always thought that there were already plenty of shows I could watch that didn’t require…
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It started last week, when I noticed something different about the phone numbers on my Caller ID feature from my BlackBerry PRIV cell phone. Normally, when I receive a call from someone, their phone number pops up as a Caller ID message. And if I’ve programmed their name into the phone, then their name comes…
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