Cold but safe at Christmastime
It was a stupid thing to do. We should never have left Wilmington that night.It was Christmas Eve, 1983. On that Christmas Eve —...
My Pee-wee Herman bike adventure
Probably everybody remembers their first new bicycle.I had been pestering my parents for a new bike for months. Christmas was just around the corner....
Goin’ fishin’ for crappie — and piranha?
Now that I’m neck deep in my retirement, I find that I have much more time on my hands than I can easily fill....
New book shows what’s happening in Ohio with drugs, homelessness
Energize Clinton County co-founder Mark Rembert’s name is found several times in the endnotes of the new book “This is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis...
‘Hunting season’ in full force
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now in the rearview mirror. The Christmas shopping season is in full bloom.However, although some people will say...
The ‘Old Sow’ and Thanksgiving
If you check out an old Rand-McNally Road Atlas, you will see many, many things that I find intriguing.There are points of interest that...
Don’t let life pass you by
Our lives are shaped by millions of events that combine to make up each day and each year of life – from childhood to...
Thank goodness that’s over
Well, thank goodness that’s over. At least, most people accept that it is now over. There are some people across the nation who continue...
Caught in the Twilight Zone
“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries...
Sadly, there will no encore
Other than sharing the same birthday and going to the same church, Steven and I had little in common. It was almost as if...
