Remember when you were growing up and your parents seemed to pull out a camera not only at the best of times, but at the worst of times? Well, it didn’t happen in my family. My folks clicked away at birthday parties, neighborhood parties, holiday parties, graduation parties … you get the picture. Frank and…
The rainbow curved majestically over the roofs of the houses across the street as my dear wife Karen pulled her car into our driveway, home from yesterday’s work at last. A drizzly late afternoon had just then given way to a slight break in the gray clouds. The rainbow was backdropped by that sudden golden…
The break-up came while I was standing at the kitchen sink, hands submerged in hot, soapy water. It was totally unexpected. I could not believe what I heard. I’d thought our relationship was perfect these last few years. First thing every morning, she made me smile. She smelled fantastic. She felt great in my hands.…
As our growing season here in Syracuse, N.Y., winds down for a long winter’s nap, my dear wife Karen and I have noticed what a really big year it’s been for the mid-yard garden in front of our house. In fact, It may have been too hardy of a second year for the forsythia. In…
It sounds enticing, this NFL Red Zone channel that I can click onto my flat screen at 1 p.m. Eastern any and every football Sunday. The Red Zone, you see, does all league-related surfing for you. With a cool voice riding in the back to moderate, The Zone promises to take you to all the…
I always knew that my good friend Bob Halligan Jr. put his blood, sweat and tears into his music. But not until he sent out a message this morning did I realize that an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears was the Syracuse songwriter and musician’s first cousin. Richard Halligan is coming…
I arrived early for a meeting in the waning moments of the afternoon yesterday, sat myself down on a bench outside the building and watched the world of Syracuse University scurry about the quad. It was a little after 5 p.m. The students were walking about in the sun. Out from classes. Out to dinner.…
A couple days into his new position as general manager of the Syracuse Chiefs, Jason Smorol obviously is knee-deep. I caught Smorol with CNY Central sports anchor Niko Tamurian on last night’s news. They stood in the parking lot outside NBT Bank Stadium, the big ballpark serving as the backdrop as Smorol explained that it…
Central New York now has skin in this season of “The Voice.” A guy you can find pouring a drink behind a bar around these parts hit a last-inning vocal home run to earn a spot on CeeLo Green’s team. Shawn Smith was the very last singer to make it past the blind auditions. When…
Syracuse football fans really wanted to be in the big-time Saturday afternoon in the Carrier Dome. For the Orange’s first ACC game ever, some 49,000 folks — the biggest Carrier Dome crowd in a dozen years — roared to make it the loud house, better to make it hard for Clemson’s offense to hear or…
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