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Award-winning columnist, photographer and news writer Ellen Leahy is back as the editor of the Skaneateles Press, in beautiful Skaneateles New York.

She is the former editor of the Skaneateles Press and the Marcellus Observer, and most recently the Syracuse City Eagle. She makes her home in Skaneateles where she is also a freelance photographer and caregiver for her parents, Bill and Marion Leahy.

She began her formal writing career as a columnist with one of her hometown papers, The Duxbury Clipper, in Duxbury, MASS. Born in California, she then moved to Sea Girt, NJ. She is a product of small town America - and the late great American Middle Class.

The photo at right is the drive down to Brook Farm off of West Lake Road - one of my former Skaneateles haunts.

Currently reading...

CLEAN, as well as other assorted reads on my dad's Kindle.

Blogs I like

Amy Fancher Mosaics
An improv theater in atlanta with major talent
art made out of sand
Barrigar brothers - talented entertainers extraordinaire
blackwell on more than just sports
Center of Festivus and author of Surf's Up
Charlie Rose's favorite chick Web site
Creative services
great girl writer who loves good food maybe even more than I do
great syracuse history site
Jack - a baby boy in my life
Kanjira - trio
Ken Jackon's award winning pub - Syracuse
local NPR podcasts
My dad's and my favorite show
My first favorite blog - ever
my own food journal
original snowflake photographer
Rethinking our world
Talk on creativity and genius
The Asbury Park Press - my first paper
The Duxbury Clipper - my first writing gig
The Whitney's of Cambridge food blog
urban cictionary - new words, expressions

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My new hobby – sibling still inspires, teaches

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Have you ever seen those little Zen gardens made for your coffee table? It’s a small black frame, with white sand in the bottom that comes with a little rake. One is supposed to rake the sand, which brings some sort of spiritual awakening or maybe peace of mind. Perhaps, the juxtaposition of one’s giant self compared to the tiny rake adds a certain frequency to the contemplation?

My brother Michael (Mik) lives in Tucson, Ariz., and is crazy about the desert, which is really a big sand box. Anyway, Mik often flies home to Skaneateles to lend a hand with the folks. Life is always an adventure when Michael is around. He straightens out computer issues, takes the folks on shopping expeditions and surveys the situation to access needs first hand...

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