Back when I was a cover boy

In my day, the SUNY Morrisville journalism classes were spread through many different campus buildings. Charlton Hall. The Library. Lab-Class. The Little Theatre in the Student Activity Center, even, with those fold-over mini-desks in the very spot where the Friars put on their most excellent drama productions. No wonder I still get hit with that…

Our porch Christmas spruce is in the ground

We knew when we purchased the potted blue spruce in December and proclaimed it our side porch Christmas tree that we wanted to put the baby in the ground after the ornaments were packed away and spring thaw arrived here in our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Here’s the pre-Christmas post where I shared the…

Don’t scold me because I’m not exactly like you

I consider myself told off. And I’m not too thrilled about it. Earlier this week, I wrote about the bad dinner experience for four of us at The Cheesecake Factory at the Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. It generated a fair amount of commenting here on WordPress and on my Facebook…

One more look at the Wine Tour that was

Two weeks ago my dear wife Karen and I hopped on a limo-bus hybrid for a group tour of five Cayuga Lake wineries and vineyards. I chronicled the adventure in words and photos here. I promised a couple more pictures. There you go. I also promised that I’d reveal which wines I liked best when…

Awful lived between good bread and great cheesecake

The Cheesecake Factory adventure played out at last as we celebrated my wonderful daughter Elisabeth’s birthday this past weekend at the Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. We’d been waiting to experience this new franchise, the four of us, since our failed attempt to eat dinner there the Saturday of its opening…