Author Archives: ksedinger

“YOU OVER-OFFICIOUS JERK!” (or, Happy 100th Birthday, Marv Levy)

Posted on August 3, 2025 by ksedinger

Marv Levy, the great football coach who guided the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls from 1990-1993 during his Hall-of-Fame career, is 100 years old this day. Those Bills teams hold a strong place on my emotional life, even … Continue reading →

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A brief thought on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Posted on August 2, 2025 by ksedinger

Killing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a particularly galling move. True, I knew it was coming, but even so…it’s just so frustrating watching Republicans kill everything that actually made this the country I grew up in, as they set … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on July 31, 2025 by ksedinger

I just finished a remarkable novel the other night, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos. The book is a slow burn of a novel about the life of a man (told as a series of memories as he … Continue reading →

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A guest in our milkweed

Posted on July 30, 2025 by ksedinger

A much hoped-for phenomenon has come to pass: there is a little friend making a major change in his life, and he’s doing it in the milkweed outside our front door. (OK, he hasn’t started his actual transition yet. But … Continue reading →

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The Tones of Tuesday

Posted on July 29, 2025 by ksedinger

UPDATE: Apparently my fingers weren’t doing things right when I wrote this post, as I came up with two different spellings of “Respighi”. This has been fixed. Weird how some words and names just defy our fingers, for those of … Continue reading →

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I don’t have much to say today but I did learn a random fact I didn’t know so now I’m sharing it with you, because I care!

Posted on July 28, 2025 by ksedinger

Harland Sanders, the famous “Colonel Sanders” of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, lived his last fifteen years or so not in Kentucky or anywhere you might expect. He lived in Mississauga, Ontario, which at that time was a suburb of Toronto. … Continue reading →

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At the Faire….

Posted on July 27, 2025 by ksedinger

Yesterday, The Wife and I made our annual pilgrimage to the Starling Renaissance Festival in Sterling, NY. We left Friday night, actually, and stayed in a hotel in Rochester, driving the rest of the way to the Festival yesterday morning; … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on July 24, 2025 by ksedinger

(Normally I try to wait longer than just under four months before I do a re-post of something I’ve already written here, but Chuck Mangione has died, and I like what I wrote about him and this song back in … Continue reading →

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Cosmic

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ksedinger

A few nifty photos from NASA: Via, via, and via.

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Tuesday Tones

Posted on July 22, 2025 by ksedinger

It’s been fascinating, looking back a hundred years at the classical music that was brand new in 1925, one hundred years. I’m not quite done with this little project yet, but I’ve had an almost avant-garde piece, a piano concerto … Continue reading →

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