I’m with Bruce Springsteen at the grown up stage, yup

There are many things that Bruce Springsteen cops to up there on the Broadway stage. With great good humor and the confidence of man who at last has nothing to lose, the 69-year-old rocker tells maybe not all but loads on stage with just his voice, a guitar and a keyboard there at New York…

Happy house in the neighborhood

My cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I appreciated the work they did to decorate the biggest house in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. We couldn’t wait until it got that dark, now, could we? Believe me, it looks nice.

Mary Poppins Returns and it’s pretty darn fantastic

Do we need some magic in our lives, or what? That’s the question we all answer at many stages and many ages, is it not? And so Disney Studios brought the enchantress of London all these decades later to help test another generation’s will … and a parade of generations that have come along the…

Sunrise over Onondaga Lake can bring it, too

So I drove the two miles to the Village of Liverpool a little early this end of December so I could walk down to the shore of Onondaga Lake before my shift at the library. Yes, it was worth it to put down my cup of coffee and pull out my iPhone 8 for the…

Winter Solstice means an early moon, too

A short day for the Winter Solstice mean a long night. And an early moon. As cherished rescue mutt Ellie B and I walked the blocks around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, we encountered the moon’s arrival. The full glow of the sphere is about one-third on the way from the…