September 2020

  Today’s blogging challenge is “content that delivers results.” What sort of content delivers results, I wondered. Well, how about a recipe? Or two recipes. My goal was to make baked pesto chicken thighs and potatoes. The chicken thighs that I am using are skinless and boneless. So I started by making the pesto. I […]

 On occasion, when I was working at my BIG GOVERNMENT JOB at Buffalo Harbor State Park, I was giving the task of walking the grounds of the park and picking up and discarding litter. It was a fun task. I got to take a walk all day. The litter collection turned into a few fun

It’s time for me to step out of my comfort zones and share a short video that I made with my phone. It was late in August, and I was on litter pickup detail at Buffalo Harbor State Park when I realized that there were ducks at my feet, following me around. Really. I’m not

How do you document the changes to a place over the course of the year? Well, you start by choosing a place that you really like and then by understanding what it is you love about that place. You will do a better job at documenting your chosen place if you can tell its story.

  Yesterday, I returned to the Niagara Dance Centre, where I had been a tap dance student from the fall of 2015 until the spring of 2016. I had loads of fun then and got to dance in the recital. Being on stage in costume is as much fun as Halloween (my favorite holiday). Unfortunately,

  The autumnal equinox will occur next Tuesday. It is the day when daylight hours and nighttime hours are exactly the same. And then, the days will grow shorter as the nights grow longer. Some animals are busily preparing to hibernate. Critters that hibernate include bears, bumblebees, hedgehogs, ground squirrels, bats, turtles, the common poorwill

 Today, I’m going to talk about a fun way to save money. That fun way is to buy stuff at garage sales (also known as yard sales). After all, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. You can find some really cool things in places where you least expect them. And the prices are very

  In the summer of 2008, I walked from Chicago, Illiniois, to Saint Paul, Minnesota, with a group that was organized by a Chicago-based organization, called Voices for Creative Nonviolence. The walk was called the Witness Against War walk. For the most part, it was a good experience. I met many people who had interesting

  Spiders are brilliant creatures. They create engineering marvels, known as spiderwebs. The spiderwebs perform as designed, with the goal being to snare food for the spider, which doesn’t have to chase and catch its future dinner, unlike most other species. So what makes a spiderweb so successful? Well, for one thing, spiders can produce

  Here in Western New York, the schools have just re-opened in a hybrid format. Kids get two days of in-class instruction and three days of remote instruction under this format. There is also the option of only remote instruction. Some school systems are choosing a format, in which kids attend school every other day.