Resolutions

Some things, some goals, some ideas to attempt and accomplish throughout 2012 Business Build an iPhone App Learn to Program in Ruby Become a better Amateur Photographer Projects Finish the Boat Grow the Utica Firefly project even bigger Make a Rock N Roll Record Visit the West Coast Grow a Better Garden Cut Down the…

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In Defense of Letters

Yesterday I was listening to the Diane Rehm program, as I often do – and really got into her interview with Suzanne Marrs who had written a book covering the lengthy correspondence between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty and her New Yorker editor and fellow writer William Maxwell. For more than 50 years, they corresponded…

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Small Things

I’ve been a big fan of the photoblogs that Ree (Pioneer Woman), Kathleen Connally (A Walk Through Durham Township), Amanda Pair and the Boston Globe have been running for a long time now. Other friends like Bernie at Medraw and Erin’s Photo 365 project have been trying to do a photo (or sketch) every day…

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Michael Patrei and Ballou

When I gave a talk about Bootstrapping in the Mohawk Valley to the MV Young Professionals group last month, one of the points I tried to drive home was that you need to surround yourself with people that make things…and that you should make something too. Whether those things are businesses, films, music, art, pieces…

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