Over twelve years ago, I wrote a blog post about how important my high school class ring is to me. I still have the ring today, it’s kept with my 2019 Albany Patroons championship ring and my 2014 Windsor Express championship ring as a special triumverate. Today’s blog post isn’t about any of those rings.…
Read MoreThe low blow from Highmark
I have health insurance through Highmark, the insurance company formerly known as Blue Cross or Blue Shield or Blue Man Group or something like that. On the positive – I get decent health coverage from them, I pay a pretty penny to save a pretty penny, all of that. And they do offer me a…
Read MoreChuck’s Best Blog Posts of 2022
What a year. Competition Season 2022. A train chase. And a whole lot of other fun things mixed in. So in the spirit of the holidays … let’s recap what happened in the past twelve months. 10. For the first time in a major trivia tournament, I went in as a solo competitor (really, because…
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Here comes Santa Claus (and the Green Island Power Authority)
I received this notice from my community Facebook page. Green Island still treats the holidays with joy and amazement. You can’t tell me Santa Claus doesn’t exist, especially when you can see his travel route printed right in the Facebook community page. Essentially old Saint Nick will travel along the major thoroughfares in our illustrious…
Read MoreA possibility in Wyoming
So … After last week’s attempt to enter a gallery show with my photos fell flat, I resolved to try again. In an effort to add opportunities for my photos, I submitted three of my black-and-white images – my dew-soaked dandelion After the Rain, my Infrared Toll Gate Ice Cream shot We Serve Wayward Strangers,…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 17 2022
It’s not too late – get out there and purchase that last-minute gift item and make that special someone in your life smile from ear to ear on Christmas Day. Trust me, this is when the Postal Service and UPS and FedEx earn their wings. And with that in mind … while you’re making that…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 16, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s show rocks out to great Christmas music – some familiar, some rare, but all are part of the holiday season! Time…
Read MoreAn email from a New York City art gallery.
Last November, after the successful showing of four of my prints at the New Jersey International Photography Exhibition, I gathered up my courage and attempted another “call for art.” This time, I aimed for the bullseye – the dream of having one of my artworks hang on the walls of a New York City art…
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A homemade View-Master® reel featuring one of my favorite subjects of 2022.
It arrived in the mail yesterday. Well, five of them, along with viewers. I shipped three off to special recipients as Christmas presents, and I’m keeping two – one to care and one for a spare. It’s my homemade View-Master® compatible reel and viewer. Wanna see? Yes you do. That’s right. These shots from my…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: Stort’s Frito Pie
Sometimes you can create tasty meals on the fly, especially when your dinner prep time is virtually non-existent. Case in point. On days when I’m driving home from the day job, I’ll stop at one of the four Stewart’s along my route home. (No, I didn’t misspell anything in the headline, the proper pronunciation of…
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