Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I visited my retinal doctor yesterday, Dr. Templar, for a scheduled eye examination and medicine injection appointment. Yep, I got another shot of medicine jammed directly into my left eye. If you think it sounds painful and uncomfortable … it is. In my past visits to Dr. Templar and his practice, I’ve taken a few…
Read MoreSo everybody grab your popcorn and gather around the television / radio / streaming video set this morning. James Comey is going to testify before the House Intelligence Committee regarding conversations he had with President Trump – including those where Trump demanded that Comey swear loyalty to the President, and that Trump wanted Comey to…
Read MoreTalk about a rough night at trivia. Last night, every time I got a decent run put together, I ended up collapsing on a tough question and losing all my momentum. Urgh. Take, for example … an eight-point question regarding who won the last NBA Finals that did not involve LeBron James. I went with…
Read MoreYou’ve heard this song thousands of times, it’s a classic on oldies radio. Heck, if you’ve watched Happy Days more than once, you’ve heard Richie Cunningham croon the opening stanza as a reference to him possibly getting lucky with a girl. Yep, it’s the Fats Domino classic “Blueberry Hill.” The minute you saw my blog…
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Last October, I journeyed to the Boreas Ponds, the newly-opened parcel in the Adirondack Mountains. It was an emotional adventure for me, as it involved a five-mile hike to and from the Ponds itself. I promised myself I would return some day and take more pictures at that peaceful, serene location. Then life interfered. A…
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Damn it. The more I looked at my Honeywell Farms artpiece – the reconstruction and salvage of an old milk crate into wall art – the more I grew disenchanted with the piece. I mean, yeah, I was able to remove the fugly battleship grey paint smears while retaining the original logotype of the New…
Read MoreYou know him, you love him, you acknowledge his existence as the host of the long-running quiz show Jeopardy!. If you’re a trivia geek, you might also know him as the host of such game shows as The Wizard of Odds, High Rollers, and others. Yep, I’m talking about Alex Trebek. And this morning, I…
Read MoreBackground. For many years, while I blogged for the Albany Times Union, I set aside one day a week from my blog to focus on sharing the posts and ideas of my fellow community and independent bloggers at the TU portal. I did this because the Times Union spent an inordinate amount of energy promoting…
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I can enter six photographs in the New York State Fair Photography Competition. But what if I entered a seventh piece … outside of the photo competition?
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Teri Conroy is a very good friend of mine, we met as bloggers on the old Times Union blog portal. She operates Wunsapana Farm, a “peaceable kingdom” farm with over a dozen llamas and other agrarian creatures, and the fiber sheared from those llamas exists as high-quality fabric sold around the world. She’s always let…
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