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Lester is silently judging my writing.

Lester is silently judging my writing., originally uploaded by Jaquandor. “Me write book better dan dis guy.”

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Something for Thursday

A repeat today, because this is one of those pieces to which I return every now and again. This is one of the most beautiful choral works I know, a simple and stunning setting of the folk song “Shenandoah”.

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Assuming you can be guaranteed to live to tell the tale, what historic battle would you most like to witness?

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Sentential Links

Linkage…. :: I’m wondering what others do to get inspired and keep themselves from getting distracted? It is definitely something I am still trying to do. (I try to incorporate distraction into my routine, inasmuch as I even have a … Continue reading

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Snapshots from Ithaca

This weekend The Wife and I made our annual getaway to the Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival, and we had a great time as always…although the festival itself wasn’t quite like it usually is, owing to the fact that Ithaca is … Continue reading

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You think YOUR Monday sucks?

I wonder how long it took this truckdriver to figure out what to say in his phone call to his employers. I’ve been fond, for a couple of years, of the metaphor of a “tire fire” for something that’s going … Continue reading

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Back Roads of WNY

I’m pretty sure that I inherited from my father a general sense of antipathy for expressways. When we’d take long roadtrips, when I was a kid, such as going from our home in Allegany, NY to New Jersey (near Philadelphia) … Continue reading

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Sunday Burst of Weird and Awesome

Links fixed. Sorry folks, I don’t know what happened there. Oddities and Awesome abound! :: We’ve made a weekly ritual in these parts of going to a local artisanal cupcake joint that launched a couple of years ago. They’re very … Continue reading

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Writing in the hotel room

A little work before play. #AmWriting, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. Getting a little work done before we head to Ithaca, because as Captain Malcolm Reynolds once said, “We work before we play.” He also said some other stuff, but that’s … Continue reading

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Breaking Brown

I was in a pretty oddly dark mood this morning, so I tweeted the following: I like to think that when he turned 18, Encyclopedia Brown got sick of the whole thing and committed a string of still-unsolved murders. Of … Continue reading

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