Another shout-out for Jim Horsman’s Halloween book on the day

When I posted this story last week, Facebook didn’t allow me the proper linking photo characteristics. I want to give it another chance. Some quarter century ago, Jim Horsman wrote a story about Halloween. He liked the tale of three characters he’s made up in his mind, sure. But the Syracuse-area man stuck it in…

In While We’re Young, Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts play age as more than a state of mind

Ben Stiller’s character Josh is somewhat futilely teaching a college class about film, as makers of documentaries who somehow find themselves tip-toeing into their mid-40s while still working on his second piece for close to a decade now. Damn that malfunctioning PowerPoint. After, a robust young couple engage him in conversation about his lecture, and…

Don’t worry Ellie B, you’re coming with us

After we got the keys and poked our head into A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, my dear wife Karen drove the two miles down the road to leave me back off at the library to finish my Friday work day. Then came three days of packing up our lives at the…

That sweet first moment with the keys to A Bitty Better

So my dear wife Karen picked me up from work at the Liverpool Public Library two Fridays ago at 10:25 a.m. At 10:30 a.m., we were meeting our friend and realtor Mary at A Bitty Better for the final walk-through to make sure everything met our approval. We had not set foot inside its doors…

These sales take time, and then wham!

Before moving into the new place in the Galeville section of Liverpool, we had to move out of the old house in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. My dear wife Karen and I had lived there since 2004. It was a great dozen years. It never dawned on me to leave. After all, this…

A welcoming blanket of white feels A Bitty Better

I woke up Wednesday morning and was semi-startled by the sight from the front window. Our cars were getting hit by a dusting of snow on Oct. 26, 2016. By the time I was ready to hit the road to my job at the Liverpool Public Library, I had to take a brush to the…

A good book by Jim Horsman to get you and the young ones in that Halloween mood

Some quarter century ago, Jim Horsman wrote a story about Halloween. He liked the tale of three characters he’s made up in his mind, sure. But the Syracuse-area man stuck it in a drawer and went about his business promoting festivals and such for the company he owned, Center Stage Events. Now, with Halloween less…

Feeling fallish at Onondaga Lake Park

The green held on for a good, long time at Onondaga Lake Park.’ As I took my latest lunchtime stroll from the Liverpool Public Library, it looked way more like fall had arrived on the shores of Onondaga Lake Park. I had to pull my iPhone 6 from my pocket as I circled on my…

Even now, Interstellar goes a long way to feed the space Jones

Sometime in our not-too-distant but definitely dusty future, the folks living in the farm belt are having one heck of a time turning out the crops. Blight is hitting everything that used to feed their fellow Americans, it becomes quite clear early on during Interstellar, as a family with a determined man played so well…

Meet the Liverpool Public Library’s Flat Stanley Grace Flener

Flat Stanley has been around for while. In fact, the character came from the mind of children’s book author Jeff Brown and pen of Tom Ungerer in 1964. I came across the little dude, though, at my job as communications specialist at the Liverpool Public Library. As part of the Flat Stanley Project, the Pinckneyville…

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