Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a happy and safe New Year. We had a lovely dinner at The Black Sheep in Buffalo (and yes everything was amazing) followed up with a stop at the Alton Brown approved public espresso + coffee at the Lafayette. We were safely home by 9 (as to avoid all the amateur drunks […]
Opening Day ad, 1982
I really hate falling into rabbit holes and today I blame the guys over at Forgotten Buffalo.com (and facebook) for today’s rabbit hole. The Rainbow Centre mall was part of the dystopian future envisioned by the proponents of Urban Renewal (aka tear down any interesting 19th century buildings and replace them with stuff designed by Brutalist style […]
Ms. Vernon’s company, started in 1951, once had revenues near $300 million and was the first owned by a woman to be listed on the American Stock Exchange. Source: Lillian Vernon, Creator of a Bustling Catalog Business, Dies at 88 – The New York Times
When Christians start to lose sight of gratitude and instead develop a major persecution complex then we have a huge faith crisis on our hands that is far bigger than whether the red cups at Starbucks make any reference to Jesus. This year we didn’t even wait until Advent to start claiming persecution. We are […]