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.

World class vibe at Bangkok Thai

So I’m sitting with my work friends/colleagues for a business lunch at our favorite, friendly Liverpool quick getaway spot Bangkok Thai, and something amazing hits my gaze. The faraway wall has paint peeling in a peculiar pattern. Or maybe somebody chipped it away on purpose. I did discern the shapes of large land masses I…

Here’s the whole library sign

I promised that the next trip I took to the downtown branch, I’d catch all the letters of the cool sign. First I took a photo from the outside looking up. Coming at it from the other direction helped my sense of order. They really did hit a home run with this one. And inside,…

Yes, we could make them at home

It only took one pass through the frozen food section and a few minutes of hard looking in the Asian food sauce aisle to come home with the right ingredients to re-create the potstickers meal we’d savored so much at TGIF. I think my dear wife Karen’s version turned out even more succulent potstickers, if…

Spike Lee makes you think hard with BlackKlansman

Picture a proud African American police officer from the Colorado Springs force on the phone with David Duke, convincing him to send him this KKK card. Yes, it really happened. And under the direction of Spike Lee from his screenplay with Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott from the book by that policeman, the…

Open and shut, a better look

Little by little, we make A Bitty Better suit our needs and wants. My dear wife Karen was tired of two closets that were left without doors. So she called our friend Bert, an able carpenter willing to quickly take care of both spaces. I much appreciate both the downstairs and upstairs vibe.

On board at work

My dear wife Karen took a great image of our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. I swear we could get this dog on TV commercials. For now, though, the photo takes its place on the new pet-only bulletin board at Karen’s place of work. Bravo, eye place! Karen says her colleagues are…

Icy morning

If it’s not snow to clear from the car before pulling out to work … … it’s ice. My Chevy Cruz had a thin layer of freeze all over it on Wednesday morning in the Galeville neighborhood in Liverpool. I thought maybe that a few minutes running with the defrosters on would take care of…