The bigger the better

One of my colleagues at the library had a purse with a great saying on it, I noticed at this year’s staff day. I voiced my admiration to my dear wife Karen. So came a present from a package in the mail. I think it’s grand, a slogan to stand behind. Karen thinks I can…

My new dye job

My impatience took over on Day Four. When I woke up Saturday morning, I grabbed the directions I’d been stowing on my dresser since the Tie Dye on the Lawn event at Liverpool Public Library on Wednesday afternoon and read the how-to one more time. Let it set for eight hours, it plainly said. Or…

Straight from P-Town

I’ve been mulling this idea about a great T-shirt around in my head since my dear wife Karen and I started visiting Provincetown as part of our annual pre-tourist-invasion June week in Cape Cod. The saying is Straight from P-Town. We love this city on the top of the Cape because it is so inclusive…

Syracuse fans still stew about that call for Duke

Yes, Syracuse basketball fans still love making T-shirt statements. At my bowling league last night, orange shirts were aplenty. After all, the hometown team won yesterday afternoon in the NCAA Tournament, easily topping Western Michigan. I spotted a new slogan on the shirt worn by a great bowler on the squad against us. Jeff Williams’…

The No. 1 T-shirts are hanging out in Syracuse

The T-shirt factory cranks hard and fast in Syracuse, N.Y. A week ago today, the Syracuse men’s basketball team rose to the top of the Associated Press and USA Today polls, following a thrilling victory in the Carrier Dome over Duke. They held serve with a Monday win over Notre Dame. So a Sunday visit…

Keep Calm and (I had fun filling in the blank)

Keep Calm and Go Orange, read the T-shirt on the student walking up the aisle in the Carrier Dome. Now, where have I seen that slogan before? As it turns out, the Syracuse fan’s shirt is just the latest in a parade of variations that have grown from the British pre-World War II slogan Keep…

Funny, but I really love writing without a pen

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…