Here’s hoping for a rewarding 2017 for the Syracuse Orange football squad

Not to wish the warm season away, but we’re only five months out from the start of the 2017 college football season. Yeah, my dear wife Karen and I like our fall Saturdays in our season seats up high in the Carrier Dome following the Syracuse Orange. Saturday we took our annual April peek at…

You can’t help but root for J-La and C-Pratt as the lonely Passengers

Imagine buying a spot on a really cool spaceship that’s scheduled to land on another world 90 years down the road. Your fee earns you 90 or so years in a hibernation chamber. A few months before landing, you and your co-passengers will awaken to an indoctrination session led by androids that will provide lessons…

Trained on getting to work

I was thinking about what I was going to accomplish first thing at work. Then I saw cars stopped up ahead. A train was making its way across the main road I take to the library. It looooooked looooooong. Nope. Not this time. A second to snap one photo with my iPhone 6s, and the…

Solid like a rock

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I have been trying to make the best of the above-freezing move toward better days here in our new Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. We enjoy the new stuff we take in during our post-work walks in the blocks surrounding A Bitty Better. Last week a few neighbors on a…

A happy birthday at a new barbecue joint, thanks to Ray Brothers

When I told my wonderful daughter Elisabeth that I was ready and willing to drive the 40 miles southeast her way to celebrate her turning 27 with a dinner, she hesitated not a second in picking the place. Ray Brothers Barbecue sits quietly on the side of Route 20 in Madison County, just past the…

And it’s fifth place for the Limp Lizard squad

The finish for the second half of the season in the Thursday Night Men’s League at Bowling Green in North Syracuse is in. Our Limp Lizard squad finished fifth out of 12 teams. We went into the final week of league play in a position night, rolling against the very good Creno and Kelly team.…

Life imitates art imitates life

I received the text above from my dear wife Karen. She thought the dog involved looked an awful lot like Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle when she perches herself by the kitchen window of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville when she hears my car pull into the driveway. I chuckled. Loved…

Welcome back from Florida, my dear wife

My dear wife Karen returned from her annual Girls Getaway trip at the end of last week, so I took on half day from my job at the library. We took advantage of the warm spring Friday and went back to the Village of Liverpool for a sunny sit outside The Retreat. We sat at…

The Fate of the Furious is to keep our eyes popping, still

When a movie franchise reaches installment eight, fans are going to the theater either out of habit, fierce loyalty or morbid curiosity. Maybe even some fearful combination of all of the above. Have no fear, lovers of the whiz-bang that started way back in 2001 with The Fast and the Furious. Vin Diesel as the…

Happy Easter to all you good eggs

The Liverpool Public Library will be closed today, keeping its doors shut for a Sunday. Easter, you know. The folks down the street have been prepping me for the big day for more than a week. Yes, every time I’ve stepped into Nichols for a cup of coffee, I’ve been greeted by a cute little…