A trip home from Nashville feels right for Jason Teska

Back in the day, Jason Teska was one of the hardest working guys in the Central New York music scene. The guitarist and singer for country-rockers The Back Alley Boys was always putting in the effort to be the best he could be. I admired, respected and liked him a lot in those years when…

Are you game for movies based on ‘Tetris,’ ‘Angry Birds’ big screeners?

First off, I’ve never played Tetris. Not in the 1980s, not in a retro moment since. Nevertheless, my eyebrow arched at the sight of a Rolling Stone story that the Game Boy console game favorite from 30 years ago is being turned into a movie. An epic sci-fi movie. I’d heard enough talk about Tetris…

Thanks to an imaginative fundraiser, more bowls will be filled

Kudos to the folks who first came up with the idea for the Empty Bowls fundraiser in Michigan in 1994. More cheers to the wise ones around the country who picked up the ball and ran with it, galloped, really, to states east and west and south, because hungry people are everywhere. My dear wife…

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…

Fall isn’t coming as quickly as I thought it would

Taking a walk with Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle around our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood in my shorts and T-shirt, I noticed the dog panting and myself working up a good sweat. So I stopped to snap a snot of the tree above with my iPhone 4, foremost to give the dog a breather…

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…

Time for another bite of the forbidden fruit?

The good news this WordPress Dashboard Monday morning is that I was able to add this image to the right here on my iPad Air. The last 10 days or so I’ve been sent scurrying to the small screen of my iPhone 4 to affix all images on the tiny dashboard from the teeny camera…

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…

It’s just a little water from the sky, daughter

As the first one of our foursome who arrived at Seneca Golf Course Sunday morning, I had great hopes that perhaps the gray day would at least remain dry until my daughter Elisabeth, her boyfriend George III and his father George II and myself got our nine holes in. I walked around and snapped the…