by Ken | Oct 4, 2025 | Chronicles, Family & Personal
I can’t describe it, but I just NEED to visit my ancestral graves each year. Between weather and busy-ness, I never got out there to plant flowers this year. So last week I just up and left for Dunkirk. Some of the graves were bare with grass, and needed some...
by Ken | Apr 23, 2025 | Chronicles
A wonderful day, and I couldn’t be happier choosing to spend it with my eternal soulmate. Visited my mother’s space at the mausoleum, something I usually do on Good Friday, but had a prostate biopsy. (It was scheduled previously but the prep instructions...
by Ken | Dec 1, 2024 | Chronicles, Family & Personal
We’re at the edge of the snowbelt for the first snow of the season, getting almost two feet here while those to the south have driving bans and those to the north have green lawns. Our usual Sunday visit of “the Daves” to watch old Dr.Who episodes...
by Ken | Nov 8, 2024 | Business & Work, Chronicles, Family & Personal, Parkview, Politics, Economy, Science
My health is fine in spite of scares. I always feel I’ve been blessed with a modicum of stability in my genes, as much as I’m not without ageing. Mer had a scare (or two) but will not need a pacemaker, and meds seem to be doing their thing. It’s...
by Ken | Mar 16, 2024 | Chronicles, Parkview
Across the street from us is Linda, our cat-lady neighbor, and next to her is an empty lot where an abandoned house was torn down some years ago. The deer like to hang out there, mostly ignoring those who walk by. On the other side of the lot is (was) a house with...
by Ken | Jul 15, 2023 | Chronicles
Went to the Buffalo River Works to connect up with old classmates from D’Youville. It was the first time I saw more than one person from my class and or someone I knew. It was getting to the point I was remembering alums from much older eras at yearly events...