Category: Change
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Two days of spring in winter
Yesterday and today we’ve had the most gorgeous weather. 65 degrees, mostly sunny. It’s no wonder the squirrel came out to try to get back in before it becomes winter again. This sort of weather makes it feel like spring, or mid-autumn. The light and warmth must send some sort of signal to every living…
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New Things from Last Year
Three “big” good things from my last year to be thankful for are: Of course, my new house, of which I’ve posted more than enough pictures, but as rooms get remodeled, I will continue to post more. Here’s the guest bedroom’s new look. And of course this little light of mine came out in 2007.…
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Just a little change
Since I’m rearranging stuff in my house, making it how I want to live in it for a while, I thought I’d make some changes on this website too. I think I like the look of this one for now, but leave the option open to change however many times I like in the future. …
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Oakland Open House
I’ll be there, as usual.
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Extinction
It’s this sort of news that always makes me really sad. Is it just me? I don’t know. I don’t really hear people talk about the loss of a species ever. For some reason it’s always been something that hits me in the gut.
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Scaping the Street in Downtown Youngstown
This Saturday was Streetscape in Youngstown’s downtown. A couple of hundred volunteers from the community came out to plant flowers and to landscape the downtown together. It was a really awesome thing to be a part of, working side by side sometimes with people from your city that you know, and with people from your…
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Electrum Novellas=Way Coolness
Please distribute far and wide. ____________ Velocity Press Announces New Electrum Novella Series Fans of the acclaimed Rabid Transit anthology series will be excited to hear that, here at Velocity Press, we’re evolving for your reading pleasure. Our purpose has always been to bring interesting and hard to classify fiction into print, work that might…
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On my way out
I’m getting ready to head off to NYC for the Nebula Awards ceremony this weekend. I’m not nervous. I’m just excited to have been nominated. That’s a real honor in and of itself. So this will be my last post for a while, unless I get a chance over the next week while I’m in…
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Sunday in Millcreek Park
We went to Millcreek Park today, to enjoy the sun and the flowers and the people who had come out to enjoy it with each other. Even the Amish came into the city today to go to the park. We snapped a shot of them taking pictures also. There was a young guy around my…
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Beginnings and endings
I came across this really good interview with my city’s mayor (click on the February 8th Smart City radio interview under the Broadcasts section), talking about the history of Youngstown and the current situation here, as the community attempts to restructure and revitalize after decades of economic and political disintegration. It’s a very different story here…