The blank screen stares at you. The blank page dares you. A glaring, white, mocking flung gauntlet. “Just who do you think you are?” It asks. It aims directly at all the things that scare you the most. All that you fear. All your insecurities. All your perceived deficiencies, and all those that hide in…
While cruising my facebook feed in utter boredom, I stumbled across this video posted by my childhood friend Meegan; (basically, the prototypical object of teen aged affection and totally untouchable girl-next-door; in actuality across the street and three doors down, if you want to get technical about it.)I usually don’t bother with animal video posts;…
Huckleberry checking out the new kitchen floor at “The Sedge Wedge” Last November, after a year of tumult where at one point I was living in spartan hotel room with three dogs in the Adirondacks, we finally settled into our new home in Syracuse.Traveling, and being responsible for a menagerie of two aging Shih…
Old St. Lou Wedding Band Perk: THE TROUGH Back in 1987, I was playing for the first time in my life in a commercial cover / wedding / party band with Gary Frenay and…
President Obama will be embarking on a bus tour of Central New York, making a stop in Syracuse on Thursday August 22nd, 2013. He’s going to give a to give a little talk concerning educational opportunities at Henniger High School. According to the White House, he will presumably discuss and promote the “importance of ensuring…
Back when I was a little shaver (around 4), we used to visit my Momma’s best friend’s camp on the western shores of Owasco Lake. Both friends had several kids around the same age, so it was always a lazy summer day hang. The rote routine: Swimming, playing in the woods, macaroni salad, hot dogs…
There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity! Burl Ives as Big Daddy Pollitt in Tenesee William’s “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof” I’ve been going to a little 24/7 “key access” gym to rehab an ankle that I inadvertently destroyed in a freak home improvement accident. Alone in the building, with…
Sometimes its hard to take good advice and useful action plans to heart when you’re in crisis mode. Life lessons are hard to learn when you need them most, and they are the hardest to hear and absorb when you find yourself at that juncture. The use of metaphor helps us to break through to a…
Dreaming and then making those dreams real are sometimes the exclusive province of the young. Its not like I haven’t stopped trying in my middle age, but I do tend to pick my spots more carefully these days. I can still throw a well aimed pebble in the pond, but I try and weigh carefully…