Back to the trusty red car

A while back, my dear wife Karen suffered what we of a certain generation call a fender bender. She stopped in her trusty Mazda, and the person following her did not. The car was still driveable, but there was some dings and dents involved. The insurance company told her what to do, appointments were made…

The sunset made my heart beat faster

As I walked out to the car at 5:30 p.m. to drive for a Valentine’s Day dinner with my dear wife Karen, I noticed this beautiful sunset in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I figured the evening was off to a pretty and proper start. Right I was.

Am I interesting times seven?

Emily of Author’s Canvas nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award. I’ve had the No Awards, Thank You sign up around these parts for a while now. Five years blogging and counting, there came a time when I’d had enough and wished for the awards to go elsewhere. But because Emily is new in BloggyVille…

Look at these big, black birds

Ellie B and I spotted a few birds during a recent walk around the blocks of our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Unfortunately, they were all crows. The first we encountered was on the roof of an attached garage. The second sat high amid bare branches. The third chose a perch in an evergreen. Not one…

Reese Witherspoon settles comfortably into Home Again

Hollywood life has its bumps for Alice, the busy 40-year-old in the center of Home Again. She’s just separated from her music-industry mogul husband and moved back west with their two kids, into the home she grew up in with her big-shot movie producer dad before he split with her mom, married lots of other…

The dusting

What is one way that winter in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville can wear you down? When it seems that you can’t remember how many days in a row you had to brush off the cars. And run the shovel along the front walk. I think of it as another darn dusting. But it sure…

That’s our pile

Winter continues in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, and thank you, plow guy. There’s really just a single space in the driveway of A Bitty Better for the plow to leave it. I figured garbage day would bring the size of the pile to light. Our pail is, oh, four-feet high.

Imagine this face on the wall

My dear wife Karen and her terrific friend Marie are getting on a bit of a Painting with a Twist run. Next comes a session in which they will paint their pets. On a canvas, on an easel, that is. So I chased around our cherished rescue mutt, Ellie B and Dogamous Pyle, trying with…

We go with the iPhone 8

Our iPhone 6s were getting old. My dear wife Karen toted them around for more than three years, and they served us well. But they were getting slow. They restarted sometimes. The batteries were losing charge faster. And I wanted a better camera for all these blog photos I take. So off we went to…