http://cnylink.com/blogs Award-winning columnist, photographer and news writer Ellen Leahy is editor of the City Eagle in Syracuse, NY. She is the former editor of the Skaneateles Press and the Marcellus Observer, also in Central New York and is a freelance photographer and adjunct professor in food service at Onondaga Community College. en-us 60 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:19:09 -0800 Wondering about The truth hurts, as it is often messy and confusing. Hiding from it, as counterproductive as that sounds is often a whole lot easier – not necessarily over time – but for the http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1258575549 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1258575549 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:00:21 -0800 Wondering about Syracuse will soon add one more woman to its leadership roster that already includes Onondaga County Exec Joanie Mahoney, SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor, OCC President Debbie Sydow, http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1257966021 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1257966021 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:40:56 -0800 Wondering about I remember the exact moment that I finally really got the concept of Jesus Christ. Consider the fact that I was baptized and raised as a Catholic in a pretty accepting America http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1257453656 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1257453656 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:51:00 -0700 Wondering about My mother was the most intense bargain hunter on earth. Raised during the depression by a single-mother working as a live-in nurse for babies, mom ended up in a quasi foster home. http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1256824260 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1256824260 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:27:21 -0700 Wondering about When you’re feeling like a limp lizard, where do you go? Luckily, in Syracuse that’s an easy – you meander over to the Limp Lizard Lounge –it’s right there on West Onondaga http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1256052441 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1256052441 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:47:49 -0700 Wondering about Where do I begin? A difficult subject, because David Letterman is in essence a victim. And what do we do with victims in America but victimize them endlessly. There are http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1255628869 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1255628869 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:13:45 -0700 Wondering about Now that Fall is in the air that means it’s time to think Fall fashion forward. And after rummaging through Vanity Fair’s recent style issue, I wondered, “Why are we still http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1254410025 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1254410025 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:30:15 -0700 Wondering about I first met the poet Hayden Carruth after he refused an invitation to the White House. As the managing partner of Pastabilities Restaurant in Armory Square in the mid 1990s, I http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1253907015 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1253907015 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:22:24 -0700 Wondering about It’s funny the lack of manners today. I mean, I grew up with four brothers, which I imagine is quite similar to being weaned with a pack of wolves. My dad was on the road, my mom http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1253208144 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1253208144 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:57:56 -0700 Wondering about I placed a colander of freshly washed cherries on the picnic table. “Mom brought me cherries every day when I was in the hospital,” my youngest brother Steve said, “and she http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1252094276 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1252094276 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:48:05 -0700 Wondering about I could never get past Edward “Ted” Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick Island incident where Mary Jo Kopechne was left for dead in a car in the salt water. In July of 1969 I was http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1251812885 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1251812885 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:18:50 -0700 Wondering about It’s that old familiar feeling – perhaps the one Tiger Woods feels as he cracks a winner; or Chef-restaurateur Mario Batelli as he watches his diners with looks of sheer http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250605130 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250605130 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:19:12 -0700 Wondering about I can’t believe I missed getting on the ballot. I really wanted to run for mayor, but I didn’t realize you had to be endorsed by one of the formal parties. In the villages http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250191152 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250191152 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:01:52 -0700 Wondering about By the time I got to Woodstock the sun was setting. We were able to drive right to the large white tent where two computer networks were being set up to enable concert goers to http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1249498912 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1249498912 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:23:14 -0700 Wondering about Oh dear, not to take away from any of the gentleman on Y94 FM’s list of Hunks of CNY – five over 50 and five under 50 years, but seriously there are so many men missing from http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1248970994 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1248970994 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:43:10 -0700 Wondering about Is gang violence just inherent in American Culture? I mean, you know the Puritans hanging people for religious reasons after fleeing their homeland because of religious torment, http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1247762590 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1247762590 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:37:33 -0700 Wondering about It wasn’t like they picked us up by the back of our waistbands and threw us out, but I was once ejected from John “Cougar” Mellencamp’s dressing room in the War Memorial. http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1247762253 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1247762253 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:27:02 -0700 Wondering about I blew my share of grass and dropped the random window pane, orange barrel or hit of mescaline back in the day. But when it came to painkillers I shied away. I even avoided http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1247070422 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1247070422 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:13:21 -0700 Wondering about Without trying or the advantage of cable TV, I did periodically witness Farrah Fawcett’s last couple of months. I couldn’t help but recall it was more traditional for http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1246544001 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1246544001 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:07:06 -0700 Wondering about The Alzheimers Association gave me a great tool. It’s a business size card that one hands out to people in the service industry when one is out with a person whose behavior is http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245859626 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245859626