Sometimes I feel like a King at the library

The task: Promote another meeting of the Liverpool Public Library Chess Club. The photo file was full of pictures I’d used previously. So I went down into our main room and snapped off a few new ones. I used a version of this one on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Get it? Why do you think…

Really, Let’s Go Orange

As far as I’m concerned, the Syracuse Orange did one thing extremely right for the last home game seven days ago now in the Carrier Dome against the Florida State Seminoles. They wore their orange jerseys. Better than the blue. Way better than the gray. Just saying. Good luck in Pittsburgh in the last game…

Living Like Mabel (and Calvin) is plenty nice and friendly

The plan was made months ago, when my blogging friend from New Zealand contacted me through Twitter and told me that she and her husband were coming to America again. I’d been enjoying her interesting takes on the world as Living Like Mabel for a good, long while, appreciating her humor, rooting for her to…

A Funky Thanksgiving to all

I can’t give you a personally shot video of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade today because, well, here I am with my dear wife Karen in A Bitty Better in the Galeville neighborhood of Liverpool getting ready to celebrate the holiday, and the big hoo-ha is down there in Manhattan. But I did think ahead…

A Little seat-saver

When I came back from stretching my legs before the game between the Syracuse Orange and Florida State Seminoles started Saturday in the Carrier Dome, I found a little surprise saving my seat. My dear wife Karen thought that my cushion was an excellent resting place for my Floyd Little bobblehead to take a short…

It snows and blows up here on the Galeville hill

My dear wife Karen and I wondered how life at A Bitty Better would be when the first major snow hit our life in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. We woke up in deep Monday morning. Sunday’s weather forecasts had me prepared for early shovel action. Yet you don’t really know what you’re going to…

There’s a lot to run from and toward with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Do not expect to feel all warm and fuzzy about Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Yes, director Ang Lee’s latest big screen spectacle is about a homecoming tour of triumph. Yes, the screenplay of Jean-Christophe Castelli based on the novel of the same name by Ben Fountain tackles the theme of hero soldiers returning from…

Enjoy movies, Liverpool Public Library-style

I think the way we show movies at the Liverpool Public Library is pretty cool. We have a big screen in the Carman Community Room. Fairly comfortable chairs. Popcorn and beverages at no charge. And did I mention that there are no ticket-takers. Yes, the movies are free of admission charges as well. I went…

Jeff comes to the rescue to fix the fence

We knew the backyard fence at A Bitty Better was sagging. Hover over a gallery photo for a description. Click on an image for an enlarged slide show. As soon as we moved from The Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, I took a trip to Lowe’s for the cinderblocks needed to…

Back rooting for the Orange at last

Odd college football season this has been for my dear wife Karen and I. Life kept us away from two of the Syracuse home football games. And that meant we were pretty fired up for last Saturday’s game between the Orange and the North Carolina State Wolfpack. We hadn’t gone up the hill to the…