George Three and Mike Piazza

My dear wife Karen and I are planning a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame on a shared day off soon. To best prepare, I DVRd an SNY special about my Mets catcher Mike Piazza’ induction last year. And I made a discovery. My terrific daughter’s fantastic significant George Three and my favorite catcher…

A short move to a window seat

We’ve got some new wrinkles going on in the Communications department at the library. So I was asked to move my stuff. My shift was all of, oh, a half-dozen feet across the gray. Chris and I swapped spots so she could be closer to new Librarian Assistant Edina, who was promoted from her Clerk…

Some days on the lanes you really don’t have it

I remember again why I only bowl in The Post-Standard Masters tournament every, oh, four or five years. My Limp Lizard teammate Steve Vicik and I signed up for the hundreds-of-bowlers in four sessions tourney again this year. We rolled at Strike N Spare Lanes in Mattydale, N.Y., at the 9 a.m. session Sunday morning.…

Here’s to the memory of Syracuse drummer David Read

Veteran Syracuse drummer David Read has passed away. Fellow drummer Mike Donahue, an important player in the Syracuse Area Music Awards as well as curator of the the significant CNY Music Archives Facebook site, sent me a Facebook message this weekend noting that he’d posted the video I took of The Works’ reunion at the…

The Grammys Is Still Worth Watching, and Mulling Over

People love flashing out over the Grammys. That’s what I like to call the immediate reactions on all sorts of social media during the midst of a big event. You know, flash-lashing. Host James Corden even poked fun at it with a spool of fake tweets roasting his performance Sunday as he announced the Grammy…

Kids and coins at the library

Walking out to grab lunch last week at the Liverpool Public Library I came upon cute kids in the lobby. They were interested in our spiral wishing well. Folks of all ages regularly drop coins into its yaw and watch them spin down. It’s a great way to make a donation. One of them really,…

Which way does your tree face?

Walking on the block perpendicular to A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville last week, Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I stumbled upon a tree most interesting. I stopped. My cherished rescue mutt stopped. It was almost as if somebody were calling our name. I’d not seen this scene before on any…

My first scrape makes me official

The white vehicle was perilously close to the yellow line when I returned with my Chinese takeout Friday, so I swung the Chevy Cruze more to the right than usual. Too far. The sound of the scrape sickened me. For the first time in the nine months I’d been parking in the library’s underground parking…

Ellie B rises with the sun

Some days I just let Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle out the back door of A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville and hardly open my eyes. Last week I saw that the sun already was saying its howdy-do for the day. I grabbed my iPad Pro from the nightstand to capture the…