Yeah, that’s the ship we’re supposed to be on in September

Cruise news. When things go bad on those massive hotels-on-the-sea, my dear wife Karen and I had a fallback position. Stuck in the ocean? Not our cruise line. No food, bathrooms plugged? Different company. Tugged back to safety? OK, change the channel, already. Do we really need to hear this? A couple of minutes ago…

When nature turns nasty, nobody wins

The low rumble surrounded Eastwood before dawn. It didn’t take but the first to wake me up, I figured. I’d watched the news before calling it a Monday, so I’d been told thunder storms would be hitting the Syracuse area. That, coupled with the awful news of tornado devastation and death in Oklahoma, didn’t leave…