Happy Memorial Day! And Go Terps Go

We salute those that served us today. Happy Memorial Day from A Bitty Better in the Liverpool, N.Y., neighborhood of Galeville. My dear wife Karen and I included a flagpole yesterday among our holiday weekend purchases. And when we got home, I mounted the bracket on the fence at the back of our driveway and…

Galeville boasts resourceful squirrels

Out one recent morning with my iPad Pro in my hand, a commotion in the neighbor’s yard to the right caught my eyes and ears. A squirrel was hoisting a piece of white bread or somesuch as big as it was up a tree. Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville squirrels are extremely strong, I see. Much…

This kid’s birthday is coming up soon

Back when he was a little kid, my dear wife Karen and I were regulars at Evan’s birthday parties. Of course, boys outgrow parents inviting THEIR friends to the bash, so we missed the last one. Our hearts were still in it, though. Which made us smile widely when we and his parents turned up…

Timber Banks plays tough no matter how you slant it

KP and I made sure we used the Golf Expo coupon to play Timber Banks on the cheap this season. Sure, that meant we played the tough Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course in the northwest Syracuse suburb of Baldwinsville as just the second time out for the season in order to make the end-of-May cut line…

Appreciating the May angle of the sunrise

Letting Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle out the back door of a Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville this interesting May, I noticed the sunrise. It struck me how far the path had traveled to the left since I shot a photo with my iPad Pro on a cold day in March with…

On the wall, with love

My wonderfully talented daughter Elisabeth has done it again. She made one of her Mother’s Day presents for my dear wife Karen, with some carpentry help from significant George Three. It’s beautiful. Karen decided it should live on the wall of the second bedroom on the main floor of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool…

My daughter and George Three know what my wife loves

After our great Food Truck Festival afternoon on Mother’s Day, wonderful daughter Elisabeth and significant George Three had gifts from the car for my dear wife Karen. They beamed as the opening of the hatch of her Kia Soul revealed two awesome plants and a homemade wall-hanging. She said the red azalea screamed to her…

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,…