It was while driving in the dark pierced by the two beams of light from the front of my car I realized there were 100‘s of floating yellow beacons all around me. Forest,Ohio is primarily a rural fa...

Tattoos are not like haircuts & goddamn that fucking hurts! So I embarked upon this journey in my heart at the beginning of the year. Instead of resolutions I challenged myself to do things th...

A friend of mine recently reminded me of the simple pleasure of Chicken & Noodles. For most of us it’s wrapped up with memories of being comforted while sick with a steaming bowl of protein and...

Once upon a Christmas Eve, while Eddie and I lived on Crestview Rd in Clintonville Ohio, there was an ice storm. It was so bad that it derailed my friend Nick’s travel plans to Toledo to visit fami...

It is said that during the process of death a person puts one foot in the beyond leaving one foot, momentarily, in the living world. Witnessing my father in-laws month long decline this week remind...

While Columbus Ohio is no New York or Chicago it does have a fair number of great pizza shops. Rotolo’s, Panzera’s, Dante’s to name three of my favorites with a solid nod at some High Street shops ...

So this happened last Saturday. I opened the laundry closet door when the iron fell from 2 feet or so above me from the top of the stacked washer/dryer and hit me square on the lower sternum and le...

This post is dedicated to my team at Grant Heart Health Center and the folks who have encouraged and inspired me to run… and of course Eddie. “Go Forth and Have no Fear” I’ve been catching up on m...

Working with SPS for five years now continues to be a fun and rewarding path. Our shop just went to production with an employee incentive system that we’d been working on since November of 2011. I ...

I have this wonderful friend who is nothing less than an angel on earth. She’s been the one who has continually popped in and out of my life like a time traveler keeping tabs on those of us lucky e...