Generalities

• A Civic Duty

  By Gary Ciszewskion September 4, 2025

  The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. — Henry Miller I had the same reaction that everyone does when […]

• Aging Velocity

  By Gary Ciszewskion July 22, 2025

  There is something intrinsic regarding time. Or, at the very least, something very peculiar regarding our perceptions of it. It was Einstein who first explained the concept of the relation […]

• The Journal

  By Gary Ciszewskion March 8, 2024

  A quick entry today. I have been doing a lot of writing, but not a lot of blogging. The winter months can be cold and stale at best, and there […]

• The Sunbeams

  By Gary Ciszewskion January 31, 2024

  We’ve come to the end of the first month of the new, if one still considers it new, year. As I’ve stated in a previous post a simple flip of […]

• The Changeling

  By Gary Ciszewskion January 23, 2024

  For what ever it’s worth, 2024 has been a very neutral start to the year. At least for myself. It might be cliche to say, but that doesn’t make it […]

• The Reflection Pool

  By Gary Ciszewskion January 5, 2024

  Now that we are collectively a few days into 2024 it seems a logical point in time for some reflection. I had refrained from writing a year-end review post. Such […]

• The Quarter Poles

  By Gary Ciszewskion December 23, 2023

  Life is replete with reflections. Little sign posts similar to quarter poles on a thoroughbred track that mark our progress between events as we travel through our individual journeys. Just […]

• The Remaining Eight Weeks

  By Gary Ciszewskion November 4, 2023

  It is a crisp November day – the stereotypical autumn day you imagine when you think about November while engulfed in the throws of a scorching July day. The grass, […]

• It’s Been A While

  By Gary Ciszewskion February 3, 2022

  When I started writing this blog it was my intention of two things: 1) I would have no deadlines, and 2) I would write on a semi-regular basis. None of […]

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  Opening Coin Toss

  By Gary Ciszewskion December 30, 2020

  Greetings everyone, I have for some time been toying around with the idea of branching off another blog from my primary at blog.wnylibrarian.com in order to focus on a more […]