My writing quest goes back to the days of the ditto machine. It was the eighth grade. I loved sports. I tried out for the junior high basketball team. I made it to the final cut before Coach Herb Friedman did not call out my name. We lived in a big school district on Long…
One look at this photo, and memories of what brought my father Frank joy smack me in the back of the head. Yeah, sometimes he’d do that, too, figuratively, with just one of his parental death stares. But not when we were tooling around the village of Stony Brook. Our father was proud of this…
There’s no shortage of joy in our home here in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood for my dear wife Karen and I, and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle, too. We hope that the happiness with life radiates out to adult children Daryl and Elisabeth as well. Of course we have our share of pain…
The morning to yield wine tasting quickly turned sunny in Syracuse, N.Y. The group of 23 day-trippers gathered in a parking lot outside Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. Stories were shared. Some folks had taken a tour of the wineries an hour to the west in the Finger Lakes region of…
Some men get haircuts when they can’t stand the sight of Shaggy staring back from the mirror any longer. Some men get their beards trimmed when birds and other little animals start to hover too closely. I have my Vanity Appointment every four weeks, without hesitation. My tradition of haircut and beard-trim is so deeply…
The invitation came by Facebook a couple of weeks ago, a call for my dear wife Karen and I to join friends for a festive holiday party. The theme for this particular soiree: ugly sweater. We talked, checked our social calendar — wide open — and RSVP’ed to the positive. Saturday we will savor a…
They are good at the art of the T-shirt in Orange Nation. The latest slogan-to-wear-proudly made its debut (in my sights, at least) on a football Saturday. And it’s a basketball-related ‘T.’ The Syracuse University Book Store set its table up indoors for the first time this season, as colder weather moved the big tailgate…
I got the A-OK at my annual visit to the eye doctor yesterday morning. It was typically uneventful. That means I walked in straight and fast and departed eye-dropped into submission, groping the side walls to ease my way out the door and onward to my car in the parking lot. That may be exaggerating…
This T-shirt’s message made me laugh out loud. Luckily, my dear wife Karen is accustomed to my shopping behavior, so she kept on eyeing her own interests in the fancy-dancy souvenir store in the toney Niagara Falls mall. So I had to point this particular message out, and grab my iPhone to capture the thought…
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