The finest cuts

My dear wife Karen gathered up pretty blooms from our gardens and arranged them just right for the kitchen. August casts its spell.

Construction season has restarted

The construction facelift approved for this corner in the Village of Liverpool took a hiatus for the virus. But the upgrading in the block around the corner from my job at the library is going strong now. Looking better.

We taste the Polish Fest food at its home

After my terrific daughter Elisabeth’s consistent admiration of the posted specials from the Utica Polish Community Club online, my dear wife Karen and I took a Thursday post-work drive east to meet her and George Three for a feast. This, after all, is the place that we have regularly chosen from the many stands that…

Pete Hamill cued me in about many things

When Pete Hamill left our world earlier this month, I bowed my head for the loss of a writer whose words meant so much to New Yorkers and smart folks beyond state and, yes, national lines. Hamill’s ink ran out of his veins onto newsprint and the pages of novels. Well, I recalled, did not…

Thinking back to that Hawaii trip

For my dear wife Karen’s new masks, terrific daughter Elisabeth found pineapple-adorned fabric, reminiscent of that family reunion trip we all took to the Big Island. They are fabulous.

My new masks are right for the library

My terrific daughter Elisabeth made me a new mask. Two, in fact, of the same style. She picked the book-adorned fabric to honor my job at the library. I wore it out on the Dinosaur Garden lawn, where our three dinosaur statues have their own masks as an example for proper safety measures.

Generational mending is the word in Always, Sometimes, Never

Life isn’t easy for Alan. One night over a family table word game, one of his two sons turned from an argument over the legality of the arranged tiles, fled the scene, and never came back. The continued absence drove a wedge between father and the other son as time wound on and wounds refused…

So that’s the early noise

I woke up to a clatter a couple days in a row recently. The infamous Central New York road construction season had reached the circle in front of the Town Offices on our street. The crew surely liked to get an early start before the office workers arrived.

Listen in the rain

The house on one side that had been rented out since we’ve moved in was purchased in the spring. I talked to the guy who seemed to be in charge of all the work being done since, and he disclosed that he’s working a flip. The new tin roof looks pretty cool. Yes, we can…