Civil War Enigma: A Comfortable Story

Originally posted on Silver in the Barn:
One Sunday paper – two Civil War articles. Welcome to Richmond. It’s not unusual to see mention of the Civil War in my local newspaper; after all, I do live in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy. When I moved here twenty-odd years ago, I had no idea that the…

If you need to settle a score, call Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington runs around in “The Equalizer” vanquishing evil as if he should be wearing tights and appearing in a title put out by the Marvel Universe. Robert McCall starts out as a guy who wants to mind his own business in this action thriller, he really, really does. In fact, he’s trying to dodge…

Golf can be about camaraderie during Ryder Cup week

Good friends off the course. Tremendous rivals from first tee to 18th green. I’m talking about KP, Tater and I with the first statement and the American and European teams for the bi-yearly Ryder Cup matches with the second. I assume that the off-course relationship for the 24 golfers from the professional squads should be…

Kitty Hoynes, you saw it with that Guy

I had lunch this week in downtown Syracuse with my great friend Jim McKeever, author of terrific blog Irish Investigations. As we usually do for our sessions of catch up on life with my dear wife Karen and his great girlfriend MG and our offspring, which leads to memories of our years together at the…

A return home from the Big Apple pleases CNY jazz fans

It’s been awhile since he’d played his saxophone in his hometown, Paul Carlon said while we corresponded about his trip up from New York City with his band La Rumba Is a Lovesome Thing to perform Friday night at Jazz-N-Caz. Yes, Carlon grew up in Cazenovia. Well, to be technical about it, his family’s home…