We’re always thinking roses

We left our roses in the yard of The Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood when we departed for the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville in October. My dear wife Karen will not allow the grounds of A Bitty Better to remain rose-less. Of that I am certain. So I made sure to…

First lunch down by the lake is pretty darn early

Mark it down. I picked my lunch bag up from under my desk yesterday and walked the two blocks down from my job at Liverpool Public Library. And it was good on the sunny noontime of Monday, April 10, 2017. Many folks were enjoying the spring day, with the sun shining and temperature well into…

Thinking about the bikes of my past

The folks I work with at the Liverpool Public Library already are talking about National Bike to Work Day. It’s next month. Friday, May 19, to be precise. Because our library has a pretty nice bike rack out front in the warm months and has acquired a new Book Bike Cart to better serve the…

OK, I’ll talk about music in the middle of all the authors

The program was titled Music and Literature Fest. I saw no musicians signed up, but plenty of authors. What the heck. I will be available to talk about the days I wrote about musicians and reviewed concerts for the big daily, from noon to 2 p.m. today in the Liverpool Public Library’s Carman Community Room.…

The flag still flies …

Walking around the Liverpool Public Library to survey the effects of Storm Stella last sweep, my breath escaped my chest when my eyes hit upon our American Flag. Something’s not quite right, I thought from afar. It was still flying high. It still looked proud. But a walk closer confirmed my suspicion. The winds had…

Around the Library, the Village of Liverpool deals with the March snow

When the Liverpool Public Library opened its doors Thursday following two days of Storm Stella-forced closure, of course I pulled my iPhone 6s out of my pocket on the short walk through the Village to Nichols for my morning cup of coffee. The walks and lots had been mostly cleared from the feet of snow…

Take a cool trip with the Origins of Jazz thanks to Mike Dubaniewicz Quartet

A week ago, I was hustling to capture the mood in the Carman Community Room at the Liverpool Public Library. The Mike Dubaniewicz Quartet was filling the air with bebop for the second installment of the Origins of Jazz II series, and the capacity crowd was digging it. Sax player and front man Dubaniewicz filled…

A short move to a window seat

We’ve got some new wrinkles going on in the Communications department at the library. So I was asked to move my stuff. My shift was all of, oh, a half-dozen feet across the gray. Chris and I swapped spots so she could be closer to new Librarian Assistant Edina, who was promoted from her Clerk…

Kids and coins at the library

Walking out to grab lunch last week at the Liverpool Public Library I came upon cute kids in the lobby. They were interested in our spiral wishing well. Folks of all ages regularly drop coins into its yaw and watch them spin down. It’s a great way to make a donation. One of them really,…

My first scrape makes me official

The white vehicle was perilously close to the yellow line when I returned with my Chinese takeout Friday, so I swung the Chevy Cruze more to the right than usual. Too far. The sound of the scrape sickened me. For the first time in the nine months I’d been parking in the library’s underground parking…

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