There’s a new hiking trail at Veterans Park, which is Grand Island’s town park. I had heard about it, but I wasn’t sure where in the park it was. Last week, I discovered the entrance, which is near the Miracle League baseball diamond and playground. The Miracle League gives children with disabilities the opportunity to […]
Yesterday, I got to go on a cruise with a group from church. It’s been a long time since my last cruise… all right… one week… I had a mini-cruise last week when I was covering a Lions Club event for the local newspaper (tough job, but someone’s got to do it). The boat that
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applesauce! When I was a kid during the Mesozoic Age, my family used to brave the elements and collect apples. Do you have any idea of how difficult that was? The climate was very hot, with a terrible greenhouse effect. You were very likely to bump into an enormously large reptile. They were everywhere. Some
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St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church holds a chicken barbecue and basket raffle every year. It’s not only a fundraiser, it’s a community event. This year, I had a Very Important and Very Powerful Job. I was a Roll Opener. Doesn’t that sound like a great Job Title? I thought so. I was celebrating
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It’s time for some creative writing fun. Today, I am going to create flash fiction, which is a very short story of no more than 1,500 words. In fact, flash fiction can be as short as six words, as in: “I forgot the stove; fire ensued.” There is action and conflict in those six words.
Today, I am going to share a few images from the Grand Island Garden Walk, which was held on July 14th, as well as a few poems about gardens. Gardens are beautiful, and they inspire the imagination and emotions of poets. I mind me in the days departedHow often underneath the sunwith childish bounds I
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Today’s blogging challenge was to share a song lyric or a phrase that has meaning to me. The lyric I am choosing comes from the song “When You Walk Through the Dark,” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein (Carrousel). In this blog post, I’m going to explain why it’s important to me and the work
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And now…. for the actual question. What do you want to know about me or my blogging? Or maybe, a random thought popped into your head, and you’d like me to talk about it. I want to make “ask me anything” really mean “ask me anything”!!! So go ahead and ask away, and you’ll get
Today, with the help of friends, I was able to enjoy the annual Grand Island Garden Walk. Although it’s called a Garden Walk, it would be very difficult to walk the entire route. The ten gardens that were opened to the public were very far from each other. I was very fortunate to have a
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Near the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, located in the same building as the Amtrak station, there are a number of brightly colored murals. These vividly colored murals offer a story about local history. They tell the story of freedom seekers who traveled north to find safety across the river in Canada. They tell
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