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Queen City of the Great Lakes

By jxmartin on Sun, 04 Feb 2024

Queen City of the Great Lakes During the shipping season, at the Erie Basin Marina on Buffalo’s waterfront, you can often watch the massive bulk of a...

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Winter in the Adirondacks

By jxmartin on Tue, 30 Jan 2024

Winter, in upstate New York, is a cross country skiers delight. The snow cover is usually good. There are lots of mountains and high forests to glide...

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Friends in high places

By jxmartin on Mon, 29 Jan 2024

The Day the Sunset Waited We were playing golf, at the Spring Run Golf Complex in Estero Florida, with friends, Joe & Phyllis Schneider, from...

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Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.

By jxmartin on Fri, 26 Jan 2024

Any number of times during a normal day, I reach into my memory banks for some fact, figure or past memory of a place or event and find only a blank...

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Posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2020

Two votes already cast for Biden/Harris in Florida, from this family.

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Good read.

Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2020

You are too kind,Ice Rivers. All I did was point you in the right direction. A career English Teacher, you know more about the process than I do. I did buy and read your book. It is interesting, thoughtful and a good read. I have and do reccomend...

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Ineresting observation, Drew.

Posted on Wed, 01 Apr 2020

Ineresting observation, Drew. It is a criticism I have made of film directors and writers. They "know" the who, what and where. The aduiences is sometimes saying "Huh? what or who is this?" To answer. The we is my wife Mary and I. We were on a...

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Yes, insert, there is. First

Posted on Sat, 09 Sep 2017

Yes, insert, there is. First responders canvassed all neighborhoods looking for anyone needing assiatance. Buses were available to ferry anyone needing a ride to shelters. Even the homeless got escorted to shelters, sometimes unwillingly. As...

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Do not go gentle into that

Posted on Sun, 08 May 2016

Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rage at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The words are the opening couplet...