Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Let's All Sing Like the January Birdies Sing

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Upstate NY, on the edge of the snowbelt.  Long winters.  Lots of snow.  Ice.  Clouds.  Gloom.  That's our trademark winter. But not th...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Disaster Tourism?

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Yesterday, I saw a segment on The Weather Channel that discussed a controversy concerning the Joplin tornado of last year. The Joplin Conv...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Civil War Sunday -The Amazing Secret of Sherwood Forest

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No, the amazing secret of Sherwood Forest doesn't have anything to do with Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Although it would have been int...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Would You Write 24 Letters in February?

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When is the last time you got a letter from someone?  In the mail system of the country you live in? A post in another blog, Depression C...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Who Among Us is Worthy?

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As the sister in law of a 50ish year old man with autism, I have to say something about a recent event.  A little background first. I kno...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Naked Building

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How many stories are there in the Naked Building? I don't know.  Probably not eight million. But I am sure there are thousands and I ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Winter Wednesday-The 100th Birthday

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Today, a woman I've known for some 40 years celebrated her 100th birthday. I don't want to go into the cliches of "she was bo...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Happy National Peanut Butter Day

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Did you know today is National Peanut Butter Day?  I found out on Twitter. Next to chocolate, peanut butter has to be one of my favorite ...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

The 800 and the Streak

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On a warm January night (45 degrees!) I sit down to write the 800th post of my blog. Happy 800 to me....when I look back at my early blogs...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Civil War Sunday - Washington Roebling

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What do Brooklyn, Brunswick, ME, Cincinnati, OH, Gettysburg, PA and the Civil War have in common? The answer is, the Roebling family, a fa...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Year of Gardening Interestingly

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Winter has come to our upstate NY town, with a big (for this year, that is) 3 inch snowstorm in addition to the snow we picked up on Thursda...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Gronk of the Flood

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What do a day care center, a dinosaur, and a flood in upstate NY have in common?  One heck of a story is what. In 2009 I blogged about the...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

What's in a Typo?

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Thank you to The Daily Retort for letting me know about the Kodak bankruptcy. As Tor Constantino declares in his blog, the fact that Koda...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Winter Wednesday-The Placid Stream

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The  Internet community has blacked out to protest SOPA and to show what censorship looks like. And with that, I would like to tell a tr...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

A Fool for Fazool

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 On the eve of the global blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA, I am dreaming of a rainbow, of a world that is free.  I dream that we be free ...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Goodbye Boeing

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Some 35 years ago, I lived in Wichita, Kansas with my spouse due to his job.  We lived there about 4 years, and for this native of New York ...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Garden Bloggers Blooom Day - January 2012-Suddenly Winter

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It's the 15th of the month again - it's time for my virtual gardening fix.  Here in upstate New York, it is winter, and any gardenin...
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Civil War Sunday - The H.L. Hunley Rises Again (Sort of)

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The first time I learned about the Confederate submarine CSS H.L Hunley , I was at a Civil War reenactment near Binghamton, NY. There was ...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

The Rainbow of a Winter Farmers Market

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How do you bring people to an upstate NY small city downtown on a winter Saturday morning? Simple.  Host an indoor farmers market with eas...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Suddenly Winter! Garden Dream Time

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After a wonderful almost snow free November, December, and first 12 days of January....winter has arrived here on the edge of the snowbelt i...
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