Walking around the Liverpool Public Library to survey the effects of Storm Stella last sweep, my breath escaped my chest when my eyes hit upon our American Flag. Something’s not quite right, I thought from afar. It was still flying high. It still looked proud. But a walk closer confirmed my suspicion. The winds had…
If you haven’t caught up to the big, little indie from the mind and pen of Kenneth Lonergan, please do get hold of Manchester by the Sea some way, somehow. My dear wife Karen and I sat transfixed in front of the flat screen after I brought home a Blu-Ray from my job at the…
When the Liverpool Public Library opened its doors Thursday following two days of Storm Stella-forced closure, of course I pulled my iPhone 6s out of my pocket on the short walk through the Village to Nichols for my morning cup of coffee. The walks and lots had been mostly cleared from the feet of snow…
It’s bracingly, frighteningly, stubbornly cold still in Syracuse, with snow on the ground. March can be a bear. And so when my TV guide tells me that my New York Mets are being beamed from a spring training game in Florida, I will land there for a moment. The Mets are playing a Saturday contest…
Today’s the day to celebrate all things Irish. And green. They got together for the annual St. Patrick’s Parade in downtown Syracuse last Saturday. My dear wife Karen and I did not attend this year. Too cold. Our local ABC affiliate, WSYR-9, broadcast three hours of the parade, as per custom. They started at noon…
The second morning of Storm Stella was as bad as the first here in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I walked out the side door of A Bitty Better and sighed. My neighbor was snow-blowing his backyard. I grabbed my shovel and got to work. When he stopped for a moment, I mentioned across the…
Back in March of 1993, a blizzard delivered more than four feet of snow in one ferocious whump when I lived in Morrisville, some 35 miles southeast of Syracuse. The way I still remember it, I pushed the garage opener, shovel in hand, in the hopes of digging out in the morning. I watched the…
During a work lunch trip with three colleagues a bit ago, I spotted this scene out of the corner of my eye. It caused me to fish my iPhone 6s from my pocket. What the heck? Pardon me for my ignorance, but I do not know what this is. I thought maybe the police had…
Barry Jenkins got so much right with Moonlight. When I caught up with this year’s Academy Award winner for the coveted Best Picture trophy on my flat screen with my dear wife Karen, I sat stock still following the three-part telling of the life and times of a boy, teen and man named Chiron as…
The little temperature readout on the corner of the screen of “Today” reads 15º F this bright morning of March 11. Dogamous Pyle aka Ellie B got me up at 6:45 a.m. to fill her bowl and let her out in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I saw…
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