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- “Momentary masters of a fraction of a dot” November 14, 2025
- Something for Thursday November 13, 2025
- What about a very tall garden shed? November 12, 2025
- Tuesday Tones November 11, 2025
- “When the waves turn minutes to hours” November 10, 2025
- Here it comes! (A somewhat annual thought on snow and The 716) November 9, 2025
- It wasn’t me. I have an alibi. November 8, 2025
- A quick and random thought about Josh Allen November 7, 2025
- Something for Thursday November 6, 2025
- Thoughts on Taylor Swift (a vlog!) November 5, 2025
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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
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
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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OUT: Hobbes, greyhound, ankle
Poor guy. Because Hobbes is hurt, he wasn’t allowed on the Buffalo Bills’ team plane to London, even though he is the Official Greyhound of the Buffalo Bills. (Yes he is! Look at his cast! He has to be! I’m sure … Continue reading
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Kites at Wilkeson Pointe
On Labor Day, The Wife and I went down to Canalside in downtown Buffalo to hang out a bit, and afterwards we stopped at Wilkeson Pointe on the Outer Harbor. We hadn’t planned on the second stop, but we wanted … Continue reading
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A metamorphosis, in progress
When we moved to WNY way back in 1981, my grandmother visited and noticed that our new backyard had a lot of milkweed in it. She told me that milkweed is a preferred plant for Monarch butterfly caterpillars, and we … Continue reading
Pictures from a Weekend
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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 →