Everywhere Everywhere leaves me feeling nowhere

Another movie taken from the pages from a YA novel, is this romantic excursion Everything, Everything. I’ve stopped treading so lightly to these Young Adult fests, having been thoroughly pulled into the treatments of The Fault of Our Stars, Paper Towns and, episode by episode, the dystopian-ness of The Hunger Games and Divergent. So I…

I’ll miss my Sunday selection of The Sports Reporters

The Pirates and Orioles are battling down on the field at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore in early fall 1979, and I’m a young guy just graduated from the University of Maryland standing in the press section waiting to spring into action. I’m four months into my job as sports editor of The Prince George’s Journal,…

Excitement builds for the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod

We paid our rent for the Cap Cod vacation recently. And our gracious landlord Julie sent over a photo of an update she made to the Happy Cottage. She expanded the front porch with her own two hands and plenty of sweat. We missed last year because I’d just started at the library. Our week…

Looking forward to our first Chiefs game

I drove to NBT Bank Stadium to run an errand last week. It was cold, windy and kind and kind of dank. The fact is, this spring has not been full of weather making my chomp at the bit to get out there to a Syracuse Chiefs baseball game. And yet the sight of our…

Nichols really does make its own Hot Ham

For the past year, I’ve packed my own lunch every Monday through Thursday so I can get my belly full with food I like, keep to the budget, and make my half-hour limit at the Liverpool Public Library. On Fridays I call out and drive quickly to pick up my takeout Chinese as a treat,…

I decide to go on the diagonal

With the third cut of spring on the front lawn of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville on my plate after work Friday, I had a big decision to make. To diamond, or not? Go the diagonal or keep it straight? I went for the corner. After I got the first set…

Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn grab my guilty laughs in Snatched

You couldn’t help but root for Amy Schumer in her movie premiere from 2015, Trainwreck. Now that was a romantic comedy that showed off every bid of her wit and wisdom, as she wrote and starred as a woman who learned from life and about herself to grow into something special. The direction of prolific…

Happy Mother’s Day. Enjoy some tulips

For all the mothers of the world, today I present the pretty tulips I recently discovered popping up at my workplace. The grounds at the Liverpool Public Library always look lovely. The gardens are well-tended daily by our smart and diligent custodial staff, planted on special occasions by Tim Ballantyne and his workers from Ballantyne…

Going, going, gone

My dear wife Karen and I aren’t the only one taking rather recent notice of this cool Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. With just a little more than a half-year in since our move from the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, we noticed two houses a couple blocks away from A Bitty Better going up for…