An update from Gary who has made a commercial break-through in Ithaca:  •  “I am lucky enough to be featured in the window of CognoscenTea, West State St, Ithaca, NY. Below are a couple pictures (and I will send a 2nd email with ordering/shopping info and pics). It is a nice display both inside …

Rob has written something very interesting and has packed in his faith that a tipping point is coming. I suppose my first inclination to find this interesting is based on the fact that I have never been a tipping-pointer or a dichotomist. The world and human participation in it is too complex. But …

Shelly of the blog Generation Exhausted gave me a shout by email today and asked the following:  •  “Are you...Canadian? The parent of a teen who blogs?  •  I'd love to dish with you about the good, the bad and the ugly for an article I'm working on. Drop me an email if you're interested! (oh, and …

Once we at GX40 HQ airlifted borscht and jerky to Iraq for Brian, the blogging paralegal of nearby Fort Drum. Now Brian has transformed his career and his is an army TV journalist heading out for Kosovo after an apparently confusing stay in Fort Benning, Georgia:  •  “There is a lot of waiting …

Home.  •  You know what is neat? Going into a brew pub you really like and wrote about over a year ago and finding that very review up on the wall in the hallway to the bathrooms, that's what neat is.  •  Some doubts as to whether I'd bother going to the Tiki hotel in Lake George NY again but it …

Gary appears to be needing a little bloggy action on the side. I don't know how to feel...I just don't know how to feel...

I don't think the lights are going out while the special assignment is on but you never know. This post may have to hold you for a while. There are ice creams to eat, roads to drive and mini-putts to putt. So what is going on?  •  France and Italy? Who would have thought it. Every time I sort of …

I am quite pleased to have the only blog with its own Potter Laureate, Gary Rith. [Ed.: click that link for a picture of a tea pot.] Recently there has been some interested talk in knowing more about his work. So Gary sent along this:  •  “Alan says I should really have everything together before …

I used the telestrator to illustrate the flooding at Gary's folks place east of Cortland NY. Quite illustrative if you ask me. He reports:  •  “I have had it with the rains, which are forecast to continue till Monday, and am glad to be home. Serious evacuations to the south and east, including …