A painful boo boo for Ellie B

I had to take Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle to the vet the other day. After that frigid spell and a frozen backyard at the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, my dear wife Karen and I noticed that our beloved rescue mutt hopped back up to the back porch and trotted…

When your gadget accessory goes on the blink

I use my iPad Air and iPhone 6 for so much. Blogging here daily, with all of the writing and picture-taking that involves, for one thing. Not to mention the texting, emailing, national newspaper reading, researching, other online poking around, other writing uses and even a phone call or three. I don’t own a laptop…

A great-named wine for a blustery day

Before our pre-Valentine’s Day date was complete, my dear wife Karen and I stopped at our favorite wine store. After all, it was in between the mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA and our cherished Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Karen roamed the aisles, still in the mood for…

A comedy about being single that feels right

Hollywood loves to mess with the heads of folks still playing the find-the-right-one game in life. Such as releasing the latest in a long line of romantic comedies, How to Be Single, on Valentine’s Day weekend. And they dig playing on the shoved-in-the-closet bad memories in us all, too. Everybody squirmed some while swimming in…

How cold is just too?

It was hard to get going Saturday in Syracuse. First off, yes, it had snowed overnight again, I’d discovered when I’d let Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle out off the back porch of the Little Bitty in our city neighborhood of Eastwood. As I looked out the kitchen window before my first morning coffee in…

Fast times at Destiny USA

Again a cluster of folks in the Canyon at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA slowed down the walk of my dear wife Karen and I as we went to watch the movie for my weekly review. This time the young and not-so were gathered around a track designed for speed and…

Please pick up your errant crap

My dear wife Karen and I take pride in our Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood or Eastwood. For a dozen years now, we’ve done the most we can to pretty up our little piece of property here on Earth. And so it irks me when some of my neighbors are not so diligent…

A bright bulb or just confused?

On a trip to my Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood’s Paine Branch library on a day off, I noticed some green shooting out from the small patch of earth in front. Hey, bulbs, this early in February in Syracuse, N.Y., is not the time to be showing your lovely heads yet. Too much cold to…