Let’s crane to spot what’s going on

As our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B and I appreciated the chance to stretch our post-polar vortex legs, we spotted something down the horizon as we navigated the blocks around A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Way up at the end of the block, there it stretched. We noted a crane up…

A new look at work

The big bosses placed a big straw into our second floor of the library and stirred. Our work spaces were not only renovated, but reshuffled. I no longer sit next to the window. I do, however, have a straight shot view to the great outdoors by merely looking left from my monitor. The period during…

A pool over the pool

So this week’s thaw made for a happy backyard time for our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. I opened the back door of A Bitty Better as soon as got home from the library. I discovered a day near 60 degrees F had left us with a melting mass on top of…

Everybody outside

It’s been weeks since my work friends and I have taken to the paths of Onondaga Lake Park during either our morning or afternoon breaks. It seems like that’s how long the polar vortex hung over the Village of Liverpool, anyway. Monday, though … The trail at 11 a.m. was, well, packed with happy people.…

There’s a lot of love to be unearthed in Juliet, Naked

Oh, goodie, another fun little movie that got its life from the pages of a Nick Hornby novel. Juliet, Naked starts out about music and some eccentric little people who center their lives around it, yes, those of you forever fans of High Fidelity. There once was this rocker by the name of Tucker Crowe…

Crows lead to foxes, I discover

On a January work break walk with my colleagues, the loud screeching of crows broke our conversation. Laura declared that in her neighborhood a few blocks away in the Village of Liverpool, that has been signifying the sighting of a fox. And she spotted it, too. Off to the right in the backyard. Out came…

Going big

My dear wife Karen’s year of deliberation about the photo she had made of one of our digital captures from our family trip to Kona led to her determination that bigger would be better. And so our Hawaii wall has been altered. I do believe none of us will forget our time in the 50th…

Baseball, please

As we turn the calendar to February, I say: Baseball, please. Spring training will be starting soon. And, yes, that is a new Syracuse Mets hat on top of my head.