Sad, miffed and still slightly confused about Syracuse Orange and college sports in general

I’ve let this news of my hometown Syracuse University’s self-imposed penalty of no post-season play for the Orange men’s basketball squad swim around in my head and gut a couple of days before attempting to make sense of how this makes me feel about college sports, life in general in this college city and how…

Althea’s a team player (and New Fuji’s more tasty than Yummy)

At the latest installment of my Vanity Appointment, my good friend Theresa Constantine pinned me down to the specific night. “You and your dear wife Karen meet me, David and Althea at New Fuji Buffet on Erie Boulevard at 6:30,” my hair and beard stylist implored. “I’ve got coupons.” Indeed we did. It had been…

If winter is what you’ve got, why not throw a big party

There’s a new baby on the Syracuse festival scene. On Feb. 20 at the Palace Theatre on James Street comes the Snow Plow Blues Festival. If you want to read about the who-is-coming and why-is-this-happening, the event is the subject of my column today for my weekly community blog on Syracuse Public Media site waer.org.…

Souper Bowl IC

This was my dinner so I could get out quickly for my Thursday night bowling league, what with my dear wife Karen having plans to dine out right from work with her friend Marie without stopping at our beloved Little Bitty in the Syracuse City neighborhood of Eastwood. One can of condensed Vegetable Alphabet soup,…

Throwback Thursday: Pop Pop, Nana and me

When my mind brings up memories of my Pop Pop and Nana, grandparents on my mother’s side, George is always smiling. The old guy — yes, no matter the age I am in these flashbacks that still warm me today, Pop Pop is remembered as old — is happy when he had I are walking…

Ready for the next full moon

Some people think every four weeks is too soon for a hair cut and beard trim. Especially when there’s not much left on top to cut. I visited my good friend Theresa Constantine at her place in North Syracuse, N.Y., yesterday, for my regular vanity appointment. Because there’s plenty on the bottom of my face…

An old friend from the music world shares some hard news

I got one of those emails on Sunday that makes you … Well … I got one of those emails Sunday that makes you think about life, and its ups and downs and the people that you meet and the ways that your paths cross and how relationships grow and how you can cherish friends…

The Full Moon effect, you ask? Do you follow?

My friend Justine over at the always-interesting Eclectic Odds N Sods asked early this a.m. from over there in the U.K., “What happens to you at full moon?” That was her entry into some pretty cool photographs of the lunar situation over at her side of the big pond. She’s good with the lens. Check…

For 50 bucks, maybe your winter Destiny does await

Always on the lookout for new stuff, my iPhone 6 came out of my pocket as I approached the parking-lot-side entrance to the pedestrian bridge at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. The windows to their world were pitching the winter entertainment this time around. Quite the idea, thought I. Throw down…

A drive 70 miles north of Syracuse finds real cold and snow

I had the opportunity to head the Chevy Cruze north Tuesday morning for a 70-mile drive up Interstate 81 to the city of Watertown. It was a rather pleasant 20 degrees F when I pulled out of the driveway of the beloved Little Bitty my dear wife Karen and I share in the Syracuse city…