I won’t flip flop on Flip Flop

We walked into the liquor store knowing we wanted the next label in our wine-expanding experiment. I was pushing for 19 Crimes, suggested by my smart blogging friend Hollie. My dear wife Karen was in for this interestingly named variety, so we closely looked over the Merlot shelves. That’s the grape we’ve been drinking together…

The street of Chatham

My dear wife Karen and I have been to Cape Cod in the Happy Cottage four years in a row now. Long enough to know what we must do to make the near-summer vacation complete. Drive that 15 or so miles down the road to visit Chatham makes the list. This year, though, we crossed…

Things I see only on the Cape

All it took was one walk with my dear wife Karen and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle to realize that there are things in Cape Cod I don’t get to see in Syracuse. Karen says there’s an azalea and rhododendron among these, and that we have them right in the front garden of the Little…

A suite night at the stadium

It was not a run-of-the-mill visit to the old ballpark the last time out to see the Syracuse Chiefs. My dear wife Karen had some big news for me with her text. Her co-worker and our friend Marlene invited her to the SMG suite for a Friday night International League game against the Indianapolis Indians.…

The vet’s just like a doctor to a dog, right?

I spend half my life humanizing Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. I admit it. Our beloved rescue mutt is so dang smart. If she could talk she’s freely engage my dear wife Karen and I in conversation each night about the shows we watch, the Mets games. She’d discuss the merits of wine vs. beer…

Love-Hate Challenge, from my heart

Joey from the most excellent blog Joeyfully Stated tagged me last night in the Love-Hate Challenge. I must have sent some sort of aura out into BloggyVille yesterday. First lilrant tagged me in the afternoon with Freestyle Writing, and then came this. Because I only carry great affection for Joey’s peculiar Indy language trotted out…

My dear wife Karen is way ahead of me being way ahead

Our great friends Brenda and JoAnn play the group cruises ahead of time. So they called a Cruise Buddies breakfast for this past Sunday at Good Golly in Central Square to talk about the next time this gang will get on the big ship. Month: September. Year: 2016. Way ahead of time. That’s how our…

Go Terps Go, onto the Super Regionals

I stayed up until 2 this morning, watching my Maryland Terrapins beat the UCLA Bruins on the baseball diamond in an NCAA Tournament elimination game on ESPNU. My squad beat the defending national champion, the No. 1 team in the country right now, too, for the second time in three tries in a four-day stretch,…