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For the past two decades, my Thanksgiving holiday tradition – between eating turkey dinner and watching non-Steelers football games – includes bringing turkey dinners to those in need. In other words, I’m a driver for the local Equinox Thanksgiving Day charity. Years ago, I would queue at the Empire State Plaza with hundreds of other…

Iverhill is a small logging town in the Adirondack Mountains. The best way to reach Iverhill is to drive up the Northway until you smell sweet pine needles, then take the next exit. Iverhill is the basis for a collection of short stories and novels. I started writing the Iverhill cycle in college, as part…

It was a good eleven years with Twitter. But I’ve moved on. I could live with Elon Musk buying the company. I could hold my nose when he turned Twitter into a hate speech free-for-all. Then he unbanned Donald Trump’s Twitter account. That’s the final straw. And as much as I would LOVE to theoretically…

I woke up this morning, looked outside my window, and saw Lightning’s Girl covered in a reasonable dusting of white snow. Ugh. Winter came early. And with the arrival of winter comes all the usual Capital District winter memes and jokes. You know the ones. The ones where we see three snowflakes outside and the…

Not the easiest way to spend a Tuesday night. I had my TV tuned to MSNBC, and I’m simultaneously doom-scrolling Twitter on my cell phone. Trust me. After all the blather coming from Lee Zeldin about how he would become Governor of New York and put all the MAGA plans in action … I was…

The Haka, if you’ve never seen it before, is a traditional battle dance and ceremonial greeting of New Zealand’s indigenous Māori. It has evolved into a powerful and compelling symbol of unity and pride among New Zealanders. And for the past 100 years, it’s been part of New Zealand’s sports culture. The New Zealand national…

I’m just going to say this out loud. I did NOT win the Powerball drawing. I did not win the $1.6 billion prize. Believe me, though, had I won, things surely be different around these parts. 😀 Back in 2011, I blogged about what I would do had I won the then-astronomical $300 million prize…

It is through the written diaries of Anne Frank that we understand the horrors and pain of those who suffered at the hands of the Nazis in World War II. Those people suffered for no reason other than their faith. And for two years, Anne Frank – along with her family and several others –…

Twitter has rarely offered me anything of great value. I signed up to it when my blog was over at the Times Union, in that I was encouraged by the TU higher-ups to have a larger social media presence to help promote my blog. Or, in true-speak, to help promote people to visit my blog…