This Is Where I Came In
1. For those who don’t know or know of my extended family, my sole sibling sister is an artist and arts educator who lives in Asheville, North Carolina. She’s got a lot of works hanging in a lot of...
View ArticleClean Living
I have something of a masochistic streak about me, which means that I often do ostensibly healthy things in the most unhealthy fashions possible. Haven’t run for a long time? No problem, I’ll just go...
View ArticleGood Heavens! A Giveaway!
I unleashed my 400th blog post under the Times Union masthead this week, some 42 months after posting the first one. After I pressed “publish,” it occurred to me that, unlike most of the other...
View ArticleThe Painted Poem Giveaway: Five Finalists (In Verse)
There were so many good suggestions made here in response to the prior Giveaway Post that I decided to pick my five favorite responses, write poems for all five of them, and then work with Paige to...
View ArticleThe Painted Poem Giveaway: We Have A Winner . . .
Thursday night, I posted the five finalist poems for the Painted Poem giveaway that I’m running with my sister, Asheville, North Carolina-based artist E. Paige Smith Duft. She and I spent the weekend...
View ArticleYour Family (Window Stick Figure Sticker Version)
Katelin has been working at the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering all summer, so she and I have been car-pooling to and from work each day. This has provided some nice...
View ArticleHome from Iceland (The Photos)
We’re back from our utterly amazing and mind-blowing vacation to Iceland. There are so many things to write and tell, and my brain is still slightly addled from the trip, so rather than blathering at...
View ArticleMore About Iceland
So tell me truthfully, readers: Are these travel posts the modern electronic equivalents of being held hostage at your neighbor’s house while he shows you the slides of his family’s vacation at the...
View ArticleBack to School
Today was the first day that our new State Quad Dining Hall (Facebook log-in required to view this excellent video, I believe) at the University at Albany was up and running in full production mode,...
View ArticleNavigator
navigator, take us home again past equator, prime meridian course creator, plotter of the wind arbitrator of the journey’s end navigator, take another fix skilled translator of the heavens’ tricks...
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