Dog and DeMille on a quiet Sunday morning

A gray Sunday morning in Syracuse, N.Y., but Ellie B still longs for a walk. Oh, she’s had her time romping in her fenced-in backyard, but she knows that out that front window awaits the big, real world to sniff. I have other ideas. It’s a great time to get in some pages of “The…

One last mow turns fallen leaves into something smaller

Welcome to Mulch Madness. Most of the leaves around our house in Syracuse, N.Y., are down. Oh, there are some stragglers still up on the most stubborn of trees, but to my eyes, they’re far enough from our lawn proper to remain off our little piece of the earth after they fall. Saturday was indeed…

If you’re lucky, found really does follow lost

The universe talked directly to me this week. I was open to its lesson. Let’s call it “They Were Lost and Now They’re Found.” It starts with a vest finding its way back to Syracuse from Canada and ends with a blanket making the journey from Syracuse back to Georgia. Sit back and enjoy. We…

Keep Calm and (I had fun filling in the blank)

Keep Calm and Go Orange, read the T-shirt on the student walking up the aisle in the Carrier Dome. Now, where have I seen that slogan before? As it turns out, the Syracuse fan’s shirt is just the latest in a parade of variations that have grown from the British pre-World War II slogan Keep…

Promote Your Blog

Promote Your Blog. This kind 20-year-old from Derby, England, offered up his 20,000-plus followers for a reblog. And I took him up on that offer. Thank you, Mr. Fox. I shall consider this a test of the power of reblogging. Have any of you followees/followers gone this route yet?

My list of favorite Christmas songs, ready already

Walking into the Destiny USA entrance yesterday to see “About Time” for my weekly Syracuse New Times blog movie review, I was pretty certain the song greeted me with the line, “It’s Christmas at the mall.” My dear wife Karen assured me it was “it’s Christmas after all.” I am sure that halfway up the…

On Nov. 6, it was golf weather in Syracuse

My last wish for golf season 2013 was granted Tuesday. I got to play one more round of golf in Syracuse, N.Y., before the cold and snow settle in for good. The day broke with the weather forecasters promising temperatures in the 60s, with sun until sometime in the afternoon. I sent the text messages…