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...

Earlier last week, I had picked up a couple sweet baking pumpkins along with a modest future Jack-O-Lantern. With a disc of pie crust left over from the apple-cranberry pies I looked around for var...

My friends are in the habit of throwing me cookbooks now and again as gifts. I got a copy of “The Food 52 Cookbook” by Hesser & Stubbs a few years ago. French ‘Peasant’ Beets has made it into m...

This post is the result of a personal request I got from the AHA to help a person who reached out on behalf of a younger person struggling with a diagnosis of a type of heart failure. It was writte...