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  • A Zoo Tale

    I took my kids to the Buffalo Zoo, while we were in town. It's a fabulous old zoo, probably 100 years old. The giraffe house is located close to the road, and it's always something of a surprise to see, in the middle o…

  • Blizzard of '77

    ThanksRon for reminding me. This weekend is the 30thanniversary of the Blizzard of '77. If you can stand it, I thought I'd take a trip down memory lane. I was 8 years old, and on the day of the storm, my entire family wa…

  • Update: My dad's power finally came back on last night at 8:00pm. I think that works out to 6 days with no electricity, and according to my brother, his town (Amherst) is still in a state of emergency.We rented Bruce …

  • Edited to add that I did not take those pictures myself. :) What I really wanted was a good shot of the row houses on Delaware Ave, near Virginia, but I couldn't find one. It was the back side of those houses, seen fr…

  • Jack Gance (by Ward Just) was good. I was struck by how it is a truly American novel, rather than a novel that happens to be written by an American. I like novels that identify strongly with a place and this one sta…

  • Hometown: I was born in Buffalo, NY and lived there for much of my life, except for a few years in Boston and a short stint in Michigan. Then my husband and I joined the brain drain and fled south. Most people he…

  • Starting to get stressed about our vacation. The first week will be fine. That's the week we spend with friends and I'm looking forward to it. But the second week when we go home to Buffalo is, as always, looming o…

  • "This isn't America, this is Buffalo." So said the mean cop in the movie Jon and I watched the other night. It's called The Falls and is set and filmed in Buffalo, which is my hometown. Now, don't go rushing out to ren…