Western New York is well-known for its lake effect snow, which can bring feet upon feet of fresh powder to the marvelous mountains of the Greater Niagara and Chautauqua-Allegheny regions. Buffalo, the second-largest city in New York State, and appropriately named the “City of Good Neighbors...
Carla has passed the baton to our next on-site resident teacher: Yandé, a textile designer from Senegal who, like Carla, is multi-talented. Delighted to add weaving to her palette, Yandé now teaches other residents and visitors in the same subtle and patient way as Carla. Both of them ...
I can’t see inside my neighbours’ windows. Well, I could in the back ones but not anymore after planting the trees to hide them from my sight. Of course, Mr E could still see me as Kristen Bell in “The Woman In The House Across The Street”, and I won’t deny indulging in a...
There’s still plenty of daylight for me to get to Thunder Hill Shelter without hiking in too much darkness, which puts me that much closer to the people ahead of me that I’m attempting to catch (most immediately Grettle, Mango, Cubby, Spoon, and Santana), and on pace to make Dalevi...
I have to admit that I am snickering still over the Mossad’s targeted beeper offensive against Hezbollah … who ought now to go by the nic of “Hezball-less” – snickering in those intervals between genuflecting in respectful admiration to a national intelligence organization who can actually...
Here, we review past and current literature that has greatly advanced our understanding of the biology and genetics of HCMV, stressing the urgent need for innovative and safe anti-HCMV therapies and effective vaccines to treat and prevent HCMV infections, particularly in vulnerable p...
I never thought about what it would be like to have a pug blog, with no pugs. I never thought about what it would be like to document the life of an aging pug, through all the ups and downs. When I started this blog, I was in my 20's and relatively care free. I had two ...
"Glad Danny Knox remembered me...He was my motivation to become a DJ. I used to call and talk to him all night. I remember one day he and I and Jim Diamond went to the movies in downtown Charleston and he insisted we all sit with an empty seat between us. Why I remember that,...
m taking a bit of a break from updating this site at the moment. I’m keeping busy with a number of other projects, both personal and professional, but I do hope to start blogging here again in the near future. Watch this space – I still have a lot to say about travel, life, ...
Clean out the pumpkin.This is the gross part. If you’re like me and hate getting your hands dirty, use a metal spoon or ice cream scooper to get the stringy, goopy mess out. I wish I hadthispumpkin gutter tool. Scrape the sides that you’re going to carve as much as you can –...