hump day havoc: patch does mass layoffs
Can you still call it AOL Patch? I am not sure because they mostly sold out to an entity called Hale Global recently as per the Wall Street Journal. USA Today said on January 15th: AOL Inc....
View Articleenough chester county spca, enough
Maybe I am post -surgical cranky, but I want to hear from State Senator Andy Dinniman and others on this. I just had a WTF moment when a friend of mine texted me to let me know that the Chester County...
View Articlemixed emotions
I heard from Pat Biswanger. She has been elected the new President of the Board of the Chester County SPCA. I am very proud of my friend. Hope she doesn’t live to regret this, but I think she will do...
View Articlesleazy sunoco
So the photo above comes from a website called Protecting our Waters. It was taken after a Philadelphia protest in December, 2013. The protest was against Sunoco and the Mariner East pipeline, so I...
View Articlethey don’t make women like that anymore
South Philadelphia, July, 1935. My father is the little baby in everyone’s arms, and at that point less than a month old Chester County is home to many cool artists, writers, filmmakers, and so on. One...
View Articlerose smoothie
Bet the title got your attention, huh? Well this smoothie isn’t for people…it’s for rose bushes. Yes, as in plants. I have mentioned that banana peels are awesome junk food for roses. I told you I...
View Articleso sunoco isn’t sleazy and sunoco isn’t sunoco?
We just celebrated the 4th of July which celebrates our freedoms in this country and apparently Sunoco officials don’t care for free speech and freedom of opinion? And maybe they don’t like that...
View Articleheightened awareness
This post has nothing to do with Chester County, per se. It is just one of those things that makes me think. It made me think of a girl who once lived in Bryn Mawr. A girl who was raped and murdered...
View Articlecontrasts
Yesterday was a study in contrasts. Started out my morning in Chester County, and headed up to New York City for the day. New York City in October is very alive and bustling. A cacophony of sights and...
View Articlebeing christian at christmas
How some people define the spirit of the Christmas season in West Vincent baffles me. Please see below as another one of those nasty and pathetic missives is making the rounds. I was told this was...
View Articlelife today and our children
This photo (which has been shown publicly on NBC10 ) started making the rounds on social media locally almost two days before the Great Valley School District released the following statement:...
View Articleis the bishop tube site in malvern completely remediated for environmental...
Bishop Tube in Malvern PA courtesy of Abandoned Not Forgotten It is a fairly simple question: has the Superfund toxic waste dump of a site known as Bishop Tube been completely remediated? And if not...
View Articlepa state rep sue helm wants to take away your rights.
Meet State Rep. Sue Helm. The architect of the disaster bill known as PA HB 809. Quite simply stated, this bill would render any local municipal government useless in the ability to control...
View Articlewhat bishop tube looks like (and more legal stuff filed)
I went to Malin Road and stood outside the fences of Bishop Tube today. Totally creepy and deserted. I was glad to see an unmarked police car do a drive by a couple minutes after I got there, the...
View Articlebrandywine in white
This has been the summer of old school fabulous summer parties. The summer began with Natural Lands Trust’s Stardust 2015 at Stroud Preserve and last Saturday it was capped off by the simply brilliant...
View Article#justvotemike
The neat thing about having my own blog is I can have my own opinions. And I am doing something I should have done a few weeks ago: blog endorse Mike Schneider for West Vincent Supervisor. As a...
View Articleoh those golden rams!
Photo borrowed from WCU Incomparable Golden Rams Marching Band Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/GoldenRamBand/ Ok how cool is this? West Chester University’s Incomparable Golden Rams Marching...
View Articlespotlight: the oscar winning movie the catholic church probably wishes you...
Spotlight was the movie we had all heard of sort of, but not really. It wasn’t featuring Marvel superheroes, didn’t have R2D2 and Hans Solo skipping across galaxies far far away, it wasn’t embroiled...
View Articletoo young to die:chester county native was beautiful with whole life ahead of...
Have you ever read something from a complete stranger in a group you belong to and just started to cry because it just gets you right through the heart? As in immediately at the time of reading? Well...
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