The best part of having multiple blogs is that there’s always one of them that can handle pretty much anything one wants to write about. Since I seem to have turned into a 6-month blog writer for this one, I figure I can get away with writing about some of my history as it pertains to my hoping to gain glory and professional accolade, while also trying to keep up with the really big time musical and content stars. How’s that for a preamble? It’s going to be long, but probably not as long as one of my blog posts on a different blog (just under 6,000 words); it’ll definitely have more pictures.

Me at 13;
I was gonna be a star!

Although my overall quest for fame and glory started when I was 13, I actually started taking piano lessons months before I turned 11. I was living in Kansas City, MO, and my grandmother had an old, un-tuned piano that I loved picking tunes on. We didn’t have any sheet music, but Mom thought I might have the possibility of learning how to play, so she found a piano teacher somewhere in the city near a shopping mall we never went to, and I started taking lessons. They only lasted 2 or 3 months because Dad came home from Vietnam, Mom couldn’t take me anymore because Dad was in rehab (which I didn’t know at the time), but the last thing my teacher told Mom is that I might have talent if Mom could find a good teacher wherever we moved.
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I moved to Liverpool, NY, in 1975, along with my parents. We moved into this area known as Grenadier Village, which had a bunch of brick apartment complexes already built, but they were working on putting together a bunch of townhouses at the time. We moved into one of those, where only 2 of the […]

I begin this story by sharing links to two stories I wrote in 2015 about Great Northern and Destiny USA, never considering the possibility that one mall would be totally gone, while the other feels like it’s dying fast, and might not be viable in another 3 years. Am I depressed… yes! When I wrote […]

It’s New Years Day across the country; hope everyone had a safe and possibly exciting New Years Eve. I stayed in the house; that’s how I roll. 🙂 What have I been thinking about? Syracuse basketball, of course. I also started thinking that I haven’t written anything specific about the Syracuse area in quite a […]

This isn’t usually the kind of topic I’d write about on this particular blog. However, as I haven’t written anything here in the longest time, and I have a blog related subject upcoming on the blog I’d usually post stuff like this one, I thought it was time to freshen things up a bit and […]