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Recently I put out a call for letters from people who needed or knew someone who needed just a little something to make them smile. Every once in a while I try to find someone to just show kindness to in some way, maybe it's a date night or a backstage pass, maybe it's a new appliance or an overgrown lawn...

If you listen to me on the radio much you may know my stance on elementary and middle school graduations and moving up ceremonies is pretty simple, they are dumb! I have always said that the praise should wait until at least the  high school graduation. The fact that you are simply moving to another grade or building isn't cause for celebrations and diplomas.

Authors note: Thanks to my wife Andrea for actually writing down Caden's words as he worked so hard to help Daddy! Last night, I was sitting at the computer as Andrea and Caden were on the couch.  Now, he should have been in bed, but as he told us “his stomach hurt and he thought it was bent a little.”  Crazy I know!  Total staller. Which he apparently gets from me because as I SHOULD have been bl

As this holiday weekend comes to a close I got to thinking about all the grilling that was done in our area. I know we have been grilling like it's our job at my house. With all that grilling going on , you can only imagine that there also has to be quite a bit of BBQ fails out there as well. Maybe it's as benign as the food coming out under or over cooked, maybe it's running out of propane half w

"Planting a vegetable garden is easy." Those are the words from Andrea's mouth I knew meant, easy for her and work for me!  And I was right!

BuzzFeed is calling this a series that "nails what it's like to be a parent nowadays".  It's called Millennium Parents.

Howe Caverns is one of those places that I think almost everyone in the Albany area has gone to at one time or another.

When someone mentions maple, I believe that most people immediately think of maple syrup.

A Cambridge-Greenwich Police officer’s home was destroyed by a fire on Thursday,

WARNIG: THIS STORY IS DISTURBING Sadly it is all too easy to see parenting fails in this world. This one comes to us from Missouri where a family decided that the best way to teach their son about the dangers of kidnapping is to actually make him live through that trauma.

A woman from Amsterdam gave birth to her son on her birthday.

Pastor Charlie Muller of Victory Christian Church in Albany is in the news a lot because he does a lot of great work to help his community.