If you’ve clicked on markbialczak.com, you know I like to take pleasure in the gardens that beautify our Syracuse city plot, spaces planned by my dear wife Karen and put in the ground by us both. You also know how I like to walk Ellie B, aka Dogamous Pyle, every darn day. Let’s put the…
My friend Theresa brought daughter Althea by the house yesterday afternoon while running a chore through my Eastwood neighborhood. I brought them out back to show off our ever-growing butterfly garden. We have four butterfly bushes. And it is, you see, peak time for the blossoms on the bushes that serve as the centerpiece of…
After the first book, if you’re lucky enough, comes the first book-signing event. My special occasion arrived Saturday, at Columbus Circle in downtown Syracuse, as big crowds filled three city blocks during the annual Arts and Crafts Festival. I sat next to Mike Waters, my veteran co-author who’s written a tidy and growing number of…
Those of us of a certain age remember the 1973 movie “American Graffiti.” That’s the one in which red-haired and freckled Ron Howard and friends — Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford and Cindy Williams among them — came to terms with becoming an adult in a time where cruising the boulevard and racing in the streets…
The ductless air conditioner first caught the attention of my dear wife Karen and I as we watched “House Hunters International” on the HGTV network. All those realtors in exotic tropical climes were telling all those prospective house-buyers that yes, there was air conditioning. We saw that it wasn’t in a window. Our online investigation…
A couple months back, I grumped loudly here about the folks who decided to use the empty lot between my house and the neighbor’s house as a dog-walking spot. You, friends, offered remedies such as motion-enabled sprinklers and stink bombs. OK, nobody thought of smell as a deterrent. It wasn’t my property, so I did…
They say that viewed under the right prism, sports teaches us about life. I believe them. Take the results of two golf tournaments yesterday. On the PGA Tour, 19-year-old Jordan Spieth won the John Deere Classic, capturing a long and winding, five-hole playoff against wise veteran Zach Johnson — a major winner with a Master’s…
The setting: A delightfully just-right early evening in mid-July, the sort of night where everybody starts every encounter with a smile for the mere reason that a blanket of heat and humidity has finally peeled back from its two-week hold on summer 2013 in Syracuse. The place: Sharkey’s Eclectic Sports Bar, the set-back-from-the-road joint in…
Ellie B switches to high alert come half past five every weekday. Every sound out front brings our dear Dogamous Pyle up on the recliner for the very best view out the picture window. It matters not if I’m already there. Ellie B thinks she makes a pretty good laptop. Oh, the routine that surrounds…
The universe conspired on the day of America’s birthday party to urge me to build this gift of recognition to the voices that help mark our lives. As you saw in my post yesterday, we took Ellie B to march in the Manlius Fourth of July parade with the group from The Dog Gone Inn.…
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