The Chief

A year ago, my friend without a blog, Paul Curran, wrote a guest post here about his mother. Mum was sensitive, intelligent and well-received, as is all of the work Paul authors from his home in Ottawa, Canada, and spreads around the WordPress world via guest-blogging. You can find Paul’s memorable Mum piece here. I…

A slice of near-Solstice sun for Dogamous Pyle

One day from the Summer Solstice in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle knows exactly where to go on her 7 a.m. get-out into the backyard of the Little Bitty. Let there be light, indeed. Lots of light. According to the charts in The Post-Standard, our sun rose at…

Sunny golf day, and a wait at every tee

There was happiness and there was discontent this week at the Little Golf League That Could. The sun was shining as I returned from our week at the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod to rejoin our two foursomes that now make Monday night home for a weekly round of nine holes at Northern Pines Golf…

Allergic to the Letter ‘E’ Challenge

My good friend Colleen at Silver Threading reached out and tapped me in the Allergic to the Letter E Challenge. Oh, BloggyVille, what have you wrought this time? If I don’t write a paragraph without using my old friend ‘e’ I will be banished to the page of lame. Oh, no, not for me! Here…

Meet the Mets, Doc and Lenny, at the Chiefs game

When my terrific daughter Elisabeth texted me earlier this week with the simple question: “Do you want to tailgate at the Chiefs game this Saturday?” it took me two seconds to type back some combination of the word Yes and Saturday. The night before, my dear wife Karen had flashed a Syracuse Chiefs Facebook promo…

While we were away, birds ate, waste was hauled and new blooms emerged

Meanwhile back at the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood … Remember I reported that just prior to departure to Cape Cod and our annual pre-tourist rush week in the Happy Cottage that I noticed red fruit on the branches of our just-transplanted front-yard Snow Fountain you all helped name Cherry Cherry?…

Tools of the trade, I’d like to reintroduce you

I’ve worked hard since the January 2013 layoff from the big daily to become more relevant in the infrastructure of BloggyVille. Lift up the hood and know as much as I can about making this baby here hum, so to speak. And so I’ve learned to speak rudimentary Apple. As you know if you’ve read…

One last look at Cape Cod, because I can

Of course not every picture I took while hanging out with my dear wife Karen and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle the pre-touring explosion week in and out of the Happy Cottage on Cape Cod fit right into my posts-of-the-moment. That’s what these ruminating recaps are built to encompass. And so I give you one…

Make Music Day is celebrated in 700 cities worldwide. Sound good?

A whole bunch of people around the world will join together Sunday to admit that music has special powers. The idea for a community fest to celebrate such a concept started in 1989 in France. They picked June 21, the day of the Summer Solstice. Most sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere and all. Now it’s…

Well, what do you know?

It started with the desire to snap a picture of the pretty orange bushes. Click on any gallery photo for a description. Click and hold on the photo to the right for an enlarged slide show. So as our pre-tourist boom week in the Happy Cottage of Cape Cod wound to its close, we gently…