Quite a first pool season

Even with the extended warm weather this fall, the pool in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville must be closed. My dear wife Karen busted her butt keeping that thing clean, full and ready for fun. Knowing that I’m not a pool guy, she promised when we picked this…

Merging the seasons surprises Dogamous Pyle

A weekday off from the workplace at the library and nice autumn weather led to a special treat for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I. Our cherished rescue mutt was thrilled to hop in the car at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville for the couple-mile ride to Onondaga Lake Park.…

Let the sun shine before going underground

Yes, I was busy back on the weekend of the 2018 Annual Used Book Sale Down Under at my workplace. The underground parking garage at the Liverpool Public Library was a hopping place on a Friday night, as well as Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I had my official work Canon around my neck much of…

Bless them in Las Vegas, and help us all

Today we wake up to the horrible news of a mass massacre in Las Vegas. A lone gunman took a repeating assault rifle, found a vantage point in a room high above a country music festival, and let loose a rain of bullets and death and deluge of terror. Fifty people are dead, Today tells…

Full disclosure about The Circle: It pushes too far

If you faithfully keep up with your social media account(s), you may sit there nodding up and down at some or many moments in The Circle. Facebook friends, Twitter followers, Instagram connections, sure the sheer weight of keeping up with your virtual world in real life can make your eyes dance in your head. In…

We’ll take 20 feet, please

I can’t tell you how many iPad/iPhone charging cords we’ve gone through. Yes, my dear wife Karen and I may have left one or two at the various places we’ve visited in the past years. But mostly they break. This history made me stop when we came upon this new stand at the New York…

Neighborly foresight

I have to hand it to my neighbor in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. He makes the most of a newly arrived golf cart, parked on his front lawn to haul away autumn this-and-that from the pretty gardens always well-tended by he and his wife. He put the pieces together for his mom, he told…

Know your direction in life

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I came across some pretty cool customers on a recent walk around the blocks surrounding A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. These birds stayed tight up the wire, bothered neither by my cherished rescue mutt nor my fidgeting to pull my iPhone 6s out of my…

They sure grow up fast these days

Last year there was a building and parking lot across the street from where my dear wife Karen and I always park for the Syracuse University Orange football games. No longer. I was surprised to see a new building going up when we pulled in for week one. The construction crew works fast. I wonder…

Flags I like to see together on campus

On a recent bright and sunny Saturday on the Syracuse University quad, a proud flapping at the top of a flagpole caught my attention as a proper part of the pretty scene. Orange and rainbow. Harmoniously. Comforting. Welcoming. As they should fly.