Thinking back to that Hawaii trip

For my dear wife Karen’s new masks, terrific daughter Elisabeth found pineapple-adorned fabric, reminiscent of that family reunion trip we all took to the Big Island. They are fabulous.

My new masks are right for the library

My terrific daughter Elisabeth made me a new mask. Two, in fact, of the same style. She picked the book-adorned fabric to honor my job at the library. I wore it out on the Dinosaur Garden lawn, where our three dinosaur statues have their own masks as an example for proper safety measures.

Generational mending is the word in Always, Sometimes, Never

Life isn’t easy for Alan. One night over a family table word game, one of his two sons turned from an argument over the legality of the arranged tiles, fled the scene, and never came back. The continued absence drove a wedge between father and the other son as time wound on and wounds refused…

So that’s the early noise

I woke up to a clatter a couple days in a row recently. The infamous Central New York road construction season had reached the circle in front of the Town Offices on our street. The crew surely liked to get an early start before the office workers arrived.

Listen in the rain

The house on one side that had been rented out since we’ve moved in was purchased in the spring. I talked to the guy who seemed to be in charge of all the work being done since, and he disclosed that he’s working a flip. The new tin roof looks pretty cool. Yes, we can…

That’s calm out on the lake

I enjoy them enjoying the lake as I enjoy the shore. Right?

May the best bass win

Walking with the kids around Onondaga Lake Park on Saturday, we spotted a lot of action around the marina. Busy social day out on the lake, I voiced to Elisabeth, George Three and Mason. George spotted activity down yonder. Yes, red digital numbers indeed caught my eye. I asked. We had come upon a bass…

Spotted at Onondaga Lake Park, leaves turning

On a safe visit to Onondaga Lake Park with the kids, this tree jumped out at me. Double-digit August arriving. Color starting its scatter amid the green up top. Indeed. Autumn, she is a knockin’ at our door in Central New York.

Hunting for hidden treasures with the kids

My terrific daughter Elisabeth sent a Saturday morning text invitation? Up to join a metal detector expedition with her, George Three and nephew Mason? You betcha. The Town Hall campus across the way would be a fun place to start, she continued, and then onto Onondaga Lake Park. By the time I’d gotten out the…

Is it what’s in the Banana Split or the local flavor?

Made in Liverpool, N.Y., this movie Banana Split that’s become a Netflix fave of late. My eyes opened wider at that declaration. I’ve followed the reports about the movie production company based in the old school building a couple miles down the block from our house and even a shorter distance from the library where…