A splash of pink brightens downtown Syracuse

Leaving the Syracuse Crunch hockey game in downtown Syracuse last Friday night, a bright building stood out among the usual skyline as my dear wife Karen and I walked from the Onondaga County War Memorial to our car parked in our favorite little lot a block away. It loomed, in fact, I’d say. I grabbed…

Holy Hawkeyes revenge

After my Maryland Terps beat the Iowa Hawkeyes of my blogging friend Megan in our first year in the Big Ten last college football season, I promised that our friendly wager would be a standing thing. Silly me. Her Hawkeyes thumped my squad Saturday to remain unbeaten this past Saturday. A good time was had…

Catching the Crunch with friends

Brenda and JoAnn offered tickets to Friday nights Syracuse Crunch game to my dear wife Karen and I, and we thought, Let the Season Begin. Our good friends handed me an envelope stuffed with six, coming to my bowling league play the night prior to the game to make sure I had them. So I…

Do it

My polling place in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood is inside a Catholic Church on busy James Street. The best place — heck, the only place — to park is out back, where location to cast our ballot doesn’t look like much. Old school, red bricks, simple and to the point, this place is.…

Foiled by the impervious, imperial, ignorant dog owner again

As long as they continue to ignore the leash law in the simple little green square two blocks over from the Little Bitty in Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, I’ll continue to rant about it. I’m pretty sure you turned your head and looked over at me yesterday afternoon just as I was pulling Ellie…

Sandra Bullock doesn’t give a damn until she creates a Crisis

When Jane Bodine answers the door to the political operatives who want to win her sly services at the start of Our Brand Is Crisis, the campaign specialist is checked out, home alone “between two mountains” as she carefully explains to them. And even though she agrees to join the crew back in Bolivia, the…

Hard help is good to find

The hanging chad is no longer. Repair made. Yesterday I told of how a week ago the Little Bitty had spit to the lawn a big slice of white trim from under the roof, and how the day had come for my dear wife Karen to hold the ladder so I could take a climb…

Hope is where you see it

I was driving to work an early morning of World Series week, still somewhat bleary-eyed from my beloved baseball squad’s defeat that ended not too many hours ago. Gray day. A little drizzly. Eight hours in store for me. Then ahead I spotted a rainbow. A big one, too, stretching toward me as I approached…

What really scares me

There could be ghosts and goblins, witches and warlocks running around your part of the world today. Be careful. Something resembling this might jump out from behind a bush and try to relieve you of your wits and bodily fluids. It is Halloween, after all. Do you believe in ghosts, really? Seven years ago, when…

Badges for Nano Poblano 2015

Are you ready for some Nano Poblano action, Peppers? Below are your badges for this year’s November action, hot from the mind of your good friend Fish of Gold. She’s come up with two versions this year for your graphic pleasure. Grab them from here and use them where you’d like on your blog. I…