Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Last Wednesday, I attended a public meeting at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The meeting was designed to gauge public opinion and discussion regarding the State’s newly-acquired Boreas Ponds tract in the Adirondacks, and the level of available access to the land. There were several proposals on the schedule, including determining the…
Read MoreBefore thoroughbred horses can race, they must train. They train on private racetracks, they train on farms, and in Australia – they train on the beach. In fact, one of the most famous horses to train on the beaches between Warrnambool and Port Fairy was Prince of Penzance, who won the 2015 Melbourne Cup, one…
Read MoreYesterday, a videotape of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump surfaced – a videotape that shows the business magnate using coarse, repulsive and misogynistic language towards women. The comments – made in 2005, while Trump was riding with Billy Bush on an Access Hollywood van en route to Trump’s Days of Our Lives cameo appearance –…
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Over the past seven years, I’ve covered thousands of subjects in this weblog. Many of them are personal; others are tertiary or tangentially connected to life. And as I blog from day to day, sometimes I lose track of some of my blogging subjects. So today’s post will hopefully tie up some of those loose…
Read MoreChoose your path … stone or earth. A photo posted by Chuck Miller (@kchuckradio) on Sep 4, 2016 at 7:17am PDT //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js Choices. We make them every day. Necktie or polo. Slacks or skirt. Left or right. And the choices we make have an overlying theme to them. Can I do it. Is it too…
Read MoreBe warned. What I’m about to share this morning is both disgusting and offensive and racist and stupid. And I’m only doing this because I’m sick and tired of stories like these populating my Facebook feed. Last year, the website Now8News.com reported that a Greenville, North Carolina woman had allegedly stolen a canister of holiday…
Read MoreLast week, a rainbow-hued pride flag outside the First Lutheran Church in Albany, the temporary home of the Albany Damien Center, was set ablaze. While plans are underway to replace that flag – in an effort to show that the Damien Center and its mission to help those with HIV and AIDS in the Capital…
Read MoreI need a sofa-bed. I really do. The futon I bought a few years ago is seriously showing both its age and its shoddy construction. And unless you want to hear me griping about a sore back every other blog post, you’ll let me get this sofa-bed. A few weeks ago, I visited Huck Finn’s…
Read MoreFor over 25 years, the Albany Damien Center has provided help and shelter and support for those who suffer from the ravages and scars of HIV and AIDS. The charitable organization has been there through good time and hard times, with one simple goal in mind – to offer a broad view in a world…
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It’s Friday evening. And at a nondescript Capital District gas station, a man parks his car, checks his wallet for his credit cards, and exits the car to fill the vehicle with gasoline. And inside the car… A conversation takes place. Dibs! Dibs! I call front seat dibs!! Get out of the cupholder, Nimslo. Chuck…
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