You taught your students well, and we still appreciate it

Neal and Carol Bandlow laughed when I brought up how a car full of us Morrisville Agricultural and Technical College journalism students would pull into their driveway just a couple miles east of the campus and think nothing about knocking on the door and being welcomed in. That was back in what I consider my…

ABC, it’s not so easy as 1-2-3

My fellow Syracuse blogger Christopher S. Malone always has a stylized account of life as a guy turning 31 to share on his interestingly titled blog, The Infinite Abyss(es). He decided I was worthy to be on his list of nominations for the ABC Award. That would be Awesome Blogging Content, for those of you…

‘Winter’s Tale’ requires too much of a leap

A horse is a horse, of course, of course. Except that in ‘Winter’s Tale,’ the evil Pearly, played with true darkness by Russell Crowe, calls it a dog. And so it goes in this fantasy that also stars Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay as fated lovers in chase of a miracle. The story jumps…

Oh, my aching back

As I was shoveling the path that connects his driveway to ours, Good Neighbor Tim opened his big front window and told me we had gotten 10 inches of snow overnight. My comment: That’s all? He had finished with his snowblower, but I still had plenty of shovel work left up close to my house.…