Spike Lee makes you think hard with BlackKlansman

Picture a proud African American police officer from the Colorado Springs force on the phone with David Duke, convincing him to send him this KKK card. Yes, it really happened. And under the direction of Spike Lee from his screenplay with Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott from the book by that policeman, the…

Open and shut, a better look

Little by little, we make A Bitty Better suit our needs and wants. My dear wife Karen was tired of two closets that were left without doors. So she called our friend Bert, an able carpenter willing to quickly take care of both spaces. I much appreciate both the downstairs and upstairs vibe.

On board at work

My dear wife Karen took a great image of our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. I swear we could get this dog on TV commercials. For now, though, the photo takes its place on the new pet-only bulletin board at Karen’s place of work. Bravo, eye place! Karen says her colleagues are…

Icy morning

If it’s not snow to clear from the car before pulling out to work … … it’s ice. My Chevy Cruz had a thin layer of freeze all over it on Wednesday morning in the Galeville neighborhood in Liverpool. I thought maybe that a few minutes running with the defrosters on would take care of…

The dog toys slip past me

As hard as I guard that back door, our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle somehow seems to slip one past me now and again. So when I dig out in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville I find gold. Or in this case, an orange carrot…

A road worth taking

So sometime in December I got a text from my dear wife Karen asking me which Bruce Springsteen song was my favorite. Thought so, she answered to my reply. At home, she told me she’d been talking about the Boss with co-workers. Cool. Then I opened holiday presents and unrolled this poster. She spotted it…

So much to clear

Maybe we didn’t get the two feet top end the weather folks had warned me about when we were heading into the storm that came to our neck of the world last weekend. No matter the final count. When I went out front of A Bitty Better in our Galeville neighborhood in Liverpool on Sunday…

And it’s still coming down

The TV weather folks are telling me this Sunday morning that we’ve gotten 8 to 12 inches. We can expect another 4 to 5 inches as we go about our business around Syracuse, N.Y., this Sunday in late January, 2019. How much did we get, exactly, since I cleared everything off Saturday around A Bitty…