Happy Halloween is the salutation of the day. Trick or treat! I will not be dressing up lavishly for the occasion. Oh, I have donned a costume in my adult past. Sometimes I’ve enjoyed it. A handful of years ago, my dear wife Karen and I went to a Halloween-night local-band gig dressed as the…
The last time I took a look at the Syracuse football squad here, the Orange was coming off a 49-14 loss to Clemson in front of a just-about-full Carrier Dome in its first game ever in the Atlantic Coast Conference. I said that the two road games in between would go a long way toward…
Quick quiz: Where was this above photo taken? No, I didn’t sneak in another location while I’m on my Niagara Falls roll. This is the park at the bottom of the Ontario city, just below the blocks of tourist shops and just above the majesty of the falls. My dear wife Karen and I had…
The idea was perfect. Our present to each other for our fifth wedding anniversary should be a return trip to the ground where we’d made it official, my dear wife Karen declared many months ago. I nodded with plenty of enthusiasm. She made reservations at the same hotel where we stayed on our wedding night.…
My first eye-opening view on Oct. 27, 2013. I am on the top floor, the 19th story, of the Doubletree. Our room faces East. Niagara Falls, Ontario, is pretty darn special. A Wonder of the World, really.
I want the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series. There. I said it. That was a tough sentence to type for a lifelong fan of the New York Mets, a baseball guy who thinks the National League is what it’s all about. My second favorite team is the Washington Nationals, the parent club…
Our butterfly bushes have always been the late bloomers. Slowly but surely in this backyard garden in Syracuse, N.Y., these babies become big achievers, too. The purple-blooming bush has always stood tallest as the growing season progresses. As autumn falls deeply at last upon this city neighborhood of Eastwood, one single branch has taken its…
The Air Force guy beat the sergeant from Utica last night on “The Voice.” When coach CeeLo Green finished his judgment of the performance of Tom Petty’s classic rock song “Refugee,” he picked Jonny Gray of Arizona over Shawn Smith of Central New York. It was a fair and memorable fight. Green picked a good…
Music lovers in Central New York have been waiting two weeks for Shawn Smith’s second appearance on “The Voice.” The singer and guitarist from Utica was the very last performer to make it past the blind audition round at the season five start of NBC’s popular singing show. His down-home take on the Zac Brown…
Once in a while you take notice of a person, pinpoint their profession, and feel the need to declare, “Of course!” I am convinced there are those among us who are destined to become what we become from the moment we are born to certain parents. Genes? Well, sure, but that is not my point…
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