Archive for February, 2011

How often do you go to a local library? I have to admit I don’t go as often as I used to. I do end up at the Liverpool Public Library at least once a month because of my writer’s group, but other than that, I stop in occasionally when I’m in the mood for […]

Well, who could turn down something like this. Margaret McCormick (@mmccormickny), former food editor of the Syracuse Post Standard, sends me a direct message through Twitter and asks if I’d like to participate in a cookie tasting contest on the 24th at the Doubletree Hotel off Carrier Circle. Who am I to turn down the […]

It took me years to get into Stella’s Diner, which is just off Hiawatha Blvd near Carousel Mall. It’s not that I didn’t want to go. It’s that I’m the type of person that sometimes has to be convinced that it’s worth waiting a long time to get into a place. What finally did it […]

Something we obviously know a lot about in central New York is snow. When we get six inches, it’s just another day at the beach, so to speak. Sure, we hate having to shovel it here and there, but we take it in stride for the most part because it is what it is. I […]

Okay, that’s a bit over the top, so let me say this; I don’t really hate Syracuse.com. As a matter of fact, for a local newspaper online I think they do a very credible job of getting the news out to us. What I’ll say is that I don’t like one main thing in particular. […]