If you buy Barb Taub’s books, you’ll help homeless pets

Barb Taub used to write a column over here in the United States. Now she lives on the other side of the big pond, where she’s a novelist, and a blogger on WordPress. Her words are eye-catching to me. On Dec. 4, she wrote a piece titled “Tap-Dancing on a Wire,” with the sub-head “If…

So why did I think I needed to flap my trap?

So it was just four days ago that my blogging friend mewhoami posted her excellent piece titled “Whose Blog Is It Anyway?” If you click the link above, you’ll see that she wondered about folks who “hop around to various blogs, critique their writing styles and make suggestions on how they would have written the…

Snow in the Syracuse backyard? Ellie B digs it

As I’ve written about the snow piling up around our Little Bitty the past few days here in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, somebody asked me in a comment about the reaction of Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. Well, Diana, I do believe you will be able to see for yourself. Not one of…

Dylan covers Sinatra, too much or too late?

When Brian Williams told me on “NBC Nightly News” earlier this week that Bob Dylan had recorded an album of Frank Sinatra songs I sat up and listened harder. Ten songs. Title of ““Shadows in the Night.” Coming out in February. Williams, such a music lover himself that he has a pretty cool online series…

The saga of snow and Syracuse city living Part II

So you know what happens when you get to the bottom of your driveway in the Syracuse city neighorhood of Eastwood all cleared from the night’s worth of snow, including the big pile deposited by the snow plow at the bottom, right? Inevitably? I still had my shovel in hand and was attacking the middle…

A new meaning for the word Headquarters

Pixar will have a movie coming out next year. Now that I know about “Inside Out,” you bet I missed this company’s animation. In today’s edition of my weekly Film News blog for the Syracuse New Times site, I talk about the Cinema Blend story that reveals much about that movie. An important term is…

Take it to the (snow) bank

The plow came through our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood last night. I call that good news and bad news. Yes, we live at the foot of a rather sharp grade for an urban setting — remember my Syracuse half-marathon photos of runners careening down past our house the past two winters? — so that…

All they are saying, is give peace a chance

I felt at home at the Plowshares Craftsfair & Peace Festival Saturday, soaking up the vibe and taking pictures with my iPhone 6. I wrote about the 44th edition of the fundraising event from my weekly community blog for Syracuse Public Media site waer.org. There are plenty of my photographs to go along with it…

More than a dusting, less than a Nor’easter

The snow the weather folks had been talking about for days — Nor’easter was their fright word I shared with in yesterday’s post direct from my wait in the car dealer’s service waiting room — finally showed up at our house in the Syracuse city nieghborhood of Syracuse after 10 last night. My verdict this…