A Capsule of Time During Cross-County Travel
I became very reluctant to plan any cross-country trip after the several disasters our interstate trips had become. But, these travel nightmares were never due to lack of planning or insufficient foresight; in fact, the failures of our trips were in spite of those things. So, leaving at the drop of a hat and spending […]
Reactions to the Secret Lair x Stranger Things and Friends Forever Commanders
Secret Lair x Stranger Things offers Magic the Gathering Commander players with some enticing new “Friends Forever” options to both lead EDH decks and upgrade their existing decks. While I have my reasons for boycotting subscription service Netflix, which I will not expound upon here, it’s true that the original series Stranger Things appears to […]
What Must Be Laid Bare
When we are young, do we really know who our heroes are? Our innocence shields us from the truth of sin; we don’t yet fathom the subterfuge of what is today commonly called “adulting”. So much of what we learn as kids turns out to be hollow promises and flat out lies. I often lay […]
Scenes from the Baseball Hall of Fame – Photophile Musings
These photos were taken at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, USA during August 2021. If you love baseball, you’ll love the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, USA. The museum was established in 1936 by the baseball commissioner at the time, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, as a place […]
Jeskai Ascendancy Combo in Modern and Pioneer
Jeskai Ascendancy was one of the most exciting cards to come out of Magic: the Gathering’s Khans of Tarkir set. There were five Ascendancy enchantments in the set, each of which covered a three-color combination associated with one of the five Tarkir clans; each cost one colored mana of each of those three colors. The […]
WOMEN at Work Above at Vanderbilt Mansion – Photophile Musings
This photo was taken at a construction site on the Vanderbilt Mansion Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York on August 21, 2021. The sign was a warning for construction workers working above the sidewalk, but apparently, female members of the construction crew took exception to the sign saying “men” and wrote in the letters […]
View From the Vanderbilt’s Backyard – Photophile Musings
This is one of the few photos that I took at the Vanderbilt Mansion Historic Site in the mansion’s backyard on August 21, 2021. While this was a great shot across the river behind the house, I didn’t get many other photos in the area. That’s because people were literally using both the front and […]