Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Ugh. What a day. What a miserable, miserable day. All I want to do is go home, eat a tub of ice cream and play Netflix Roulette. I walk a short path from my day job to a parking garage in downtown Albany. As I’m walking along the pathway, getting ready to enter the parking…
Read MoreI’ve participated in the Albany Institute of History and Art’s “Work of Art” (now known as “An Artful Evening”) twice; last year with my drenched dandelion photo After the Rain, and prior to that with my infrared image Infrared Horizon 787. This year’s event will honor my fellow Hamilton College classmate and blogroll denizen (and…
Read MoreOn September 20, 1970, a new type of public high school opened its doors for the first time. For on this very week, the Street Academy of Albany became the city’s newest public education center. The following is a history of the Street Academy of Albany (1970-1992) and Harriet Gibbons High School (1992-2006 HS, 2005-2010…
Read MoreI won’t lie. I hold onto slights like a bear trap holds onto a hiker. Many, many years ago, when I first started entering my photos in competitions, I tried submitting my shots into the Capital District Photo Regionals. The Photo Regionals are the preeminent show for local photographers, and I had hoped that something…
Read MoreThe news came over my Facebook feed, arriving with the sound of a clarion call. Who will help? Who can help? One of my neighbors owns a business, and one of her co-workers, a young adult who was barely past the age of 18, was thrown out of her living residence and told not to…
Read MoreToday’s weekly blogroll recap is, sadly, tempered by the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I would recommend, if you have a chance today, to view the film On the Basis of Sex, and understand the commitment and energy a young lawyer named Ruth Bader Ginsburg brought to this world. What she did…
Read MoreThe 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 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Time Artist Song Composer Label 8:56 PM Emerson Bimby My Little Bomb Show Nuff 8:49 PM Jenny Burton Remember What You…
Read MoreIf you’re not a regular watcher of NBL Canada basketball games, let me introduce you to Mike Poole. Let’s show another clip here. Just so you understand who Mike Poole is. If you’re not a regular watcher of New York City streetball games at the Rucker, let me introduce you to Mike Poole. Here’s the…
Read MoreI haven’t done one of these Caption Time photos in a while, but this came across my FB feed and I couldn’t resist. This is actually from the official James Taylor fan page, and it shows … well … the singer-songwriter posing next to … er … um … Now I could come up with…
Read MoreAh, Halloween. The one day of the year when I can’t get my work done, because every time I sit down, someone knocks on my door, I go to see who it is, there’s four kids in costumes and two parents just a few feet away, and they’re all yelling “Trick or Treat, Trick or…
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