Looking forward to our first Chiefs game

I drove to NBT Bank Stadium to run an errand last week. It was cold, windy and kind and kind of dank. The fact is, this spring has not been full of weather making my chomp at the bit to get out there to a Syracuse Chiefs baseball game. And yet the sight of our…

Nichols really does make its own Hot Ham

For the past year, I’ve packed my own lunch every Monday through Thursday so I can get my belly full with food I like, keep to the budget, and make my half-hour limit at the Liverpool Public Library. On Fridays I call out and drive quickly to pick up my takeout Chinese as a treat,…

I decide to go on the diagonal

With the third cut of spring on the front lawn of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville on my plate after work Friday, I had a big decision to make. To diamond, or not? Go the diagonal or keep it straight? I went for the corner. After I got the first set…

Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn grab my guilty laughs in Snatched

You couldn’t help but root for Amy Schumer in her movie premiere from 2015, Trainwreck. Now that was a romantic comedy that showed off every bid of her wit and wisdom, as she wrote and starred as a woman who learned from life and about herself to grow into something special. The direction of prolific…

Happy Mother’s Day. Enjoy some tulips

For all the mothers of the world, today I present the pretty tulips I recently discovered popping up at my workplace. The grounds at the Liverpool Public Library always look lovely. The gardens are well-tended daily by our smart and diligent custodial staff, planted on special occasions by Tim Ballantyne and his workers from Ballantyne…

Going, going, gone

My dear wife Karen and I aren’t the only one taking rather recent notice of this cool Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. With just a little more than a half-year in since our move from the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, we noticed two houses a couple blocks away from A Bitty Better going up for…

Welcome back, Margaritaville

My affinity for Jimmy Buffett’s line of comfortable shoes goes back many years now. Two pair caught my eye in the spring lineup at Off Broadway in the Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA this April. And they were part of the BOGOHO deal. I could not resist Buy One Get One…

Better off red

I have to hand it to the owners of this yard. As Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I circled A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville after my May workday, this circle of red caught our eyes and caused us to linger. Nice.

Don’t be so nervous, Ellie B

Sometimes I wonder what’s going through the head of Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. Like when she looks like this on the couch in the living room of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Relaxed, much?