Category Archives: Life

Heavens, what’s THAT!!!

There’s a bright thing in the sky! Has anybody contact NORAD about this?! I kid, obviously…and complaining about the lack of sunshine this time of year is just a thing we WNYers do, along with bemoaning the latest Bills playoff … Continue reading

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If God meant for us to shovel snow, we’d have shovels instead of hands!

If you’re at all familiar with what’s been going on in the Buffalo Niagara region lately, you probably already know why I took an unplanned hiatus from blogging this week: Lake Erie decided this was a good time to remind … Continue reading

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Still breathin’

I’ll post more later on about The Week That Was, but for now….

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“You still remember, Admiral!”

“I cannot help but be touched. I, of course, remember you.”–Khan Noonian Singh, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan I’m thinking of that quote because after several weeks of a very mild start to our winter, this week winter decided to … Continue reading

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Reading by Candlelight

  Yesterday saw a big storm push through…well, lots of places. I have to be honest, I didn’t really pay a whole lot of attention to this one, beyond what its forecast effects in Western New York were going to … Continue reading

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OK, let’s talk 2024!

NOTE: I’ve had this post in drafts since last Tuesday, when 2024 was still going OK. Then, things started going awry very quickly, hence the lack of posting much since then. I’m not going to write just yet about what’s going … Continue reading

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2023: Well, that was shit, wasn’t it?

This is the LAST POST on this site! For 2023, that is. In terms of content creation, I have motored right along on this site, after migrating from BlogSpot almost a year-and-a-half ago. What follows is a selection of posts … Continue reading

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Theresa Sedinger, 1941-2023

This is what I posted to Facebook a bit ago: A memory of my mother: I was 8 years old when we lived in Elkins, WV. That’s when I saw teevee ads for a new movie coming out called “Moonraker”. … Continue reading

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On Festivals and the Dating Thereof

NOTE: I’ve had this in drafts for-EVER (I started this post in August 2022!), and I think it’s now time to go ahead and finish it, because it’s that time of year again. Not the time of year indicated in … Continue reading

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It Begins: Emotional Winter is here!

The first snows of the 2023-2024 winter season have fallen. Yes, I know it’s not winter yet, technically…in the astronomical sense of the Winter Solstice having come and gone. Nor is yet Meteorological Winter yet; that begins on December 1. … Continue reading

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