Baseball, please
As we turn the calendar to February, I say: Baseball, please. Spring training will be starting soon. And, yes, that is a new Syracuse Mets hat on top of my head.
World class vibe at Bangkok Thai
So I’m sitting with my work friends/colleagues for a business lunch at our favorite, friendly Liverpool quick getaway spot Bangkok Thai, and something amazing hits my gaze. The faraway wall has paint peeling in a peculiar pattern. Or maybe somebody chipped it away on purpose. I did discern the shapes of large land masses I…
Here’s the whole library sign
I promised that the next trip I took to the downtown branch, I’d catch all the letters of the cool sign. First I took a photo from the outside looking up. Coming at it from the other direction helped my sense of order. They really did hit a home run with this one. And inside,…
Yes, we could make them at home
It only took one pass through the frozen food section and a few minutes of hard looking in the Asian food sauce aisle to come home with the right ingredients to re-create the potstickers meal we’d savored so much at TGIF. I think my dear wife Karen’s version turned out even more succulent potstickers, if…
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…
I’d know how to look up the price if I worked here …
Time for me to play Grumpus … So my dear wife Karen and I are shopping at the, oh, third largest big box family fix-it store in our part of the world. We want to put something large together, so we’ve brought an example nut and bolt to this usually easy place in hopes of…
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…
Mark Bialczak 