Award-winning columnist, photographer and news writer Ellen Leahy is back as the editor of the Skaneateles Press, in beautiful Skaneateles New York.
She is the former editor of the Skaneateles Press and the Marcellus Observer, and most recently the Syracuse City Eagle. She makes her home in Skaneateles where she is also a freelance photographer and caregiver for her parents, Bill and Marion Leahy.
She began her formal writing career as a columnist with one of her hometown papers, The Duxbury Clipper, in Duxbury, MASS. Born in California, she then moved to Sea Girt, NJ. She is a product of small town America - and the late great American Middle Class.
The photo at right is the drive down to Brook Farm off of West Lake Road - one of my former Skaneateles haunts.
Currently reading...
CLEAN, as well as other assorted reads on my dad's Kindle.
The web of computer literacy and coffee and compassion
eleahy, Wondering about
A latte from another city roaster, Kubal Coffee on James Street in Eastwood. Photo by Ellen Leahy.
I desperately needed a cup of coffee. So much so that after circling Armory Square for parking, and finally finding a spot across from the MOST, I entered Starbucks intending to cut through to the local roaster, Freedom of Espresso. But my need was so great; I found myself in a line at Starbucks and stayed. Also, as a former restaurateur, Starbucks is one of the chains I actually admire. It does try to engage in the local neighborhoods it occupies, serves a quality product, is innovative and pretty consistent, too.
Anyway, there was a young African American man in front of me in line who was acting all kinds of edgy. I thought, coffee ain’t gonna help that...
