NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. PROLOGUE My name is Genvieve McCarling. I played softball for Iverhill High School, and I was quite good at it. I could…
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Protect Your Glasses with Eyecups
I’ve been wearing glasses for most of my life. Except for about four months when I tried contact lenses, and actually developed a light sensitivity that required me to wear sunglasses with my contacts – which, in itself, defeats the purpose of getting contacts. One problem I’ve run into with my cameras, whether it’s my…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Prologue
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. This is the prologue. If you left from New York City, you would travel up Interstate 87, passing Yonkers and Poughkeepsie and…
Read MoreNever made it to the moon…
Saturday morning. My Pontiac 6000 was still seizing up at stop lights, a condition that had gone from a slight shudder to near-stalling. Sometimes it would lurch forward and continue to drive on; sometimes it would conk out completely. I could get it re-started, but I couldn’t swing it any more. I knew what it…
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I was cleaning up my home office last night when I found it. Nearly 200 pages of my college senior thesis, tucked neatly into a manila envelope. It was a copy of my college senior thesis. I mentioned this in a previous blog post, and that at some point in time I would sit down,…
Read MoreBobblehead-free-zone
I am currently echoing J. Eric Smith’s sentiment about this bobblehead beg-a-thon that’s permeated the Capital Region media. Okay, this was fun for about the first couple of weeks. But now it’s gotten stale. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen what appears to be every media representative talking about how they want to…
Read MoreWeek 6 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
I wasn’t completely concentrating on the tournament this week. Granted, that’s not an excuse, but in the interest of fair disclosure, I had something very close to me almost die. It was my car. While pulled up to a stop light Thursday morning, my 1991 Pontiac 6000 sounded like everything was fine. But then, as…
Read MoreRest in Peace, Johnny Maestro
I was monitoring my flickr page today, and saw that there was an unusually high amount of hits for people looking for one of my photographs. It was a photo of Johnny Maestro, the lead singer of the doo-wop groups The Crests and The Brooklyn Bridge, that I took in 2008 at the Vocal Group…
Read MoreKodachrome photos from my Daylight Saving Time ride home
As mentioned in a previous post, on March 14th I was driving back from Buffalo and, in an effort to break up my driving schedule, I loaded a cartridge of Kodachrome 64 film into my Kiev-19 and took some pictures along the way. One of the photos was a shot of something drivers see all…
Read MoreAn old New England puzzle
Here’s a puzzler to twist your brain a smidge. Apparently this word puzzle used to hang in a New Hampshire lodge near a fireplace. And the words form a very important series of instructions. Here’s the puzzle. If the BMT put more : If the B . putting : Never put more : over a…
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