Leading in style

We walked a lot during Library Advocacy Day, all around the building where our elected officials lead New York state’s government. I took a moment with my iPhone 8 as we walked between our meetings to capture the beauty and grandeur of the place. I tried to take the stairs over the elevators when possible.…

Ahead of the traffic

I know that the able driver who took our group from Syracuse to Albany last week for Library Advocacy Day had a good head on his shoulders. It’s just that the angle from my seat was a bit jarring because of the way he draped his jacket over the back of his seat. Yes, the…

Bowling with the kids

My terrific daughter Elisabeth has rekindled her interest in bowling. She and sensational significant George Three have been taking fantastic nephew Mason to learn the sport. To mark the occasion of the arrival of her new bowling ball and shoes, she asked if I’d like to join them for an open bowling session on Saturday…

Take us out to the Syracuse Mets ball game

Before we went into NBT Bank Stadium for Saturday’s Syracuse Mets open house, we stood with a tight know of other fans waiting for the ticket windows to open to start individual game ticket sales for the 2019 season. Most of the fans wore blue-and-orange Mets gear to celebrate this first season of togetherness between…

Sorry, Rick, I didn’t feel much sympathy for you

Yes, this kid truly was put in many tough situations. It was not easy being one Richard Wersche Jr. in Detroit circa 1973. Richard Sr. thought it was a good idea to cart his just-turned-teenager son around to gun shows with him to exploit his knowledge of assault weapons. For buying and selling. The FBI…

We’re on the road to nowhere

In mid-winter, the trails at Onondaga Lake Park surely looked barren. To think that they’d been parading cars this way nightly from Thanksgiving past New Year’s for Lights on the Lake.

Now that’s winter

Even with the wind blowing and the temperatures well below freezing, I got the urge to run down two blocks from the library during my morning break a few weeks ago. Onondaga Lake was still there! More scenes from what I considered our winter mid-point in the next few days.

Give me the green grass of spring training baseball

I set the DVR to take in my New York Mets’ opening spring training game this past weekend. When my dear wife Karen and I returned from Martinfest, we got to playing the contest on the living room flat screen. We saw a pitcher we did not know starting the game against the Atlanta Braves.…

Chip away at the Winterfest spirit

I knot of us took a stroll from Martinfest on Saturday, wandering from the downtown Syracuse parking lot to Clinton Square to take in the Winterfest ice sculptures. The sculptor with the saw was still creating. Hover over a gallery photo for a description. Click on an image for an enlarged slide show. We returned…