Get sad as good people spiral in Marriage Story

Marriage Story is as sad a movie as I’ll see during this stay-at-home, I’m quite certain during and right after watching it on Netflix with my dear wife Karen, blotting my eyes with a tissue and knowing in my heart that it deserved the praise and honors of this year’s award shows. Oh, how these…

Let the tree debate continue

The last time I put the near-buds up here, people told us we did not have a lilac. We had a magnolia. This came after a couple years of my dear wife Karen and I calling our front yard spring-flowering tree our lilac. All because that’s what folks on social media told us it was.…

Soon to transform

They won’t stay like this forever on the shore of Onondaga Lake.

A scene that can calm me

I do like standing there alone and looking out over Onondaga Lake. Still.

It’s a bird’s place

I know. Your turf. I didn’t overstay my socially distanced stroll at Onondaga Lake Park.

Ready for plenty

The bench can be overturned and something can be plugged into that cord at Onondaga Lake Park.

It still makes me smile

It’s not yet those precious 15 minutes taking a break from work at the library, but approaching Onondaga Lake Park from Tulip Street in the Village of Liverpool still makes me happier than I was a moment previously.

Let Mark Wahlberg run around Boston as Spenser and it will be entertaining

The private eye Spenser has been running around the American crime consciousness via the novels by Robert B. Parker and then the Tv show starring Robert Ulrich for just shy of a halfhearted-century. Now Netflix has delivered a new chapter brimming with the bravado of Mark Wahlberg as our title investigator. Directed by Peter Berg…