No outdoor hoops today

Not the current jam. My retirement month neighborhood stroll discovers an outdoor basketball game gone sideways. Can’t say I blame the players for deciding January is a month for other pursuits. Or maybe the wind made the decision for them?

Mid-January neighborhood signs

Not just in our backyard. A retirement month stroll around our neighborhood blocks allows me to leisurely take notice of greens, browns, grays and yellows It’s all right for this month in my part of the world.

Working out my next-chapter brain

It’s all up to me. When people hear it’s your retirement month, they ask a lot of questions. It usually boils down to: What’s your plan? Frankly, the favorite phrase I’ve come up so far has been <em>frivolous writing</em>. I know I like to type type type and see how the words fire out from…

Celebrating with friends at Il Limone

Personal to me. We decided this special lunch for library friends would take place at a newish Italian restaurant/pizzeria in Liverpool, Il Limone. My choice, having thoroughly enjoyed the finger foods they’d contributed in December for our staff holiday party, but never yet having set foot in the place proper. Fine atmosphere, indeed. Fantastic choice,…

My sunset over the lake snippet

Thank you for a lovely downward arc. I’ve owed you all this scene of the sun saying so long over the winter lake snippet we get at the end of our block’s downhill turn. There you go. I like it.

When the hat fits

Ready for winter. It did not take long for terrific daughter Elisabeth to final her second version of my New York Mets Big Apple home run winter hat. It fits my noggin’ perfectly. Now I have a great winter hat for my part of the world. Fantastic Christmas gift, indeed. Thank you so much for…

Oh, from the left

Rolling my way. I was the first car to the flashing lights on the main road to my library job the other morning, and cautious man I am, I stopped instead of crossing before the gate dropped. I expected the train to roll into my life from the right, as usual when I’m halted at…

Flying by and standing still

Lance, me and Craig. Some folks in this life you meet and the friendship just sticks. Lance messaged me via Facebook a few weeks ago with the very good news that he and his wife Anne would be in town to visit family, which includes his brother-in-law Craig, happily married for a good, long time…