Appreciating the May angle of the sunrise

Letting Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle out the back door of a Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville this interesting May, I noticed the sunrise. It struck me how far the path had traveled to the left since I shot a photo with my iPad Pro on a cold day in March with…

On the wall, with love

My wonderfully talented daughter Elisabeth has done it again. She made one of her Mother’s Day presents for my dear wife Karen, with some carpentry help from significant George Three. It’s beautiful. Karen decided it should live on the wall of the second bedroom on the main floor of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool…

My daughter and George Three know what my wife loves

After our great Food Truck Festival afternoon on Mother’s Day, wonderful daughter Elisabeth and significant George Three had gifts from the car for my dear wife Karen. They beamed as the opening of the hatch of her Kia Soul revealed two awesome plants and a homemade wall-hanging. She said the red azalea screamed to her…

I’ll miss my Sunday selection of The Sports Reporters

The Pirates and Orioles are battling down on the field at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore in early fall 1979, and I’m a young guy just graduated from the University of Maryland standing in the press section waiting to spring into action. I’m four months into my job as sports editor of The Prince George’s Journal,…

Excitement builds for the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod

We paid our rent for the Cap Cod vacation recently. And our gracious landlord Julie sent over a photo of an update she made to the Happy Cottage. She expanded the front porch with her own two hands and plenty of sweat. We missed last year because I’d just started at the library. Our week…

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…

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…