And after game one, my bracket isn’t perfect anymore

Everybody who picked Dayton to beat Ohio State in the first game of the NCAA Tournament right now raise your hands. Anybody outside of the Flyers’ home Ohio city? I didn’t have the game right. I had Ohio State. And, I post this to prove how smart I was not to bother entering Warren Buffett’s…

Bracket games start today, for fun and a billion bucks

Are you hot to win that billion bucks from Warren Buffett? That’s the prize offered in the NCAA Bracket Challenge put out by the union of Yahoo and Quicken Loans. The games for the field of 64 start a little after noon EDT today. If you haven’t filled them in at the link above already,…

So many additions to the home and garden dream list

It’s a project in its own right to weed out all the possible work that can await your home and garden. Last weekend, my dear wife Karen and I took the short drive to the New York State Fairgrounds to take in the wonders of the annual Syracuse Home and Garden Show. This baby has…

Going green just because she can

Sometimes you’ve got to search long and hard to find somebody you think is fully intoxicated by the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day without being fully … well, without being drunk. Yesterday in Syracuse, all I had to do was drive to the neighborhood Rite Aide drug store. My mission was to buy a bottle…

Tyler Perry champions empowerment for single moms

There’s a lot of good work that went into “The Single Moms Club.” Tyler Perry pushed hard as writer and director to show the world that women can find strength, power and great relationships if they open the door to some unlikely friends. Diversity is good in the world of this movie. Five very different…

Loud people who don’t care can ruin a meal

A loud guy has everybody in the restaurant wincing and making eye contact. What do you do? My good blogging friend Ann Koplow brought up that scenario yesterday in her wonderful post on Years of Living Non-Judgmentally. You can check it out here. In her sticky wicket, everybody else in the restaurant just toughed it…

A powerful Polish meal, cooked by me

Back in November, I wrote a foodie post about my night of cooking a Polish meal for my dear wife Karen and myself. But not being a frequent chef nor food writer, I forgot to take a picture of it before I dug in. Readers got a photo of my empty plate instead. Well, I…