As a young boy, I remember that I loved the game of baseball. During recess time at school, I would always try to get a quick game together with my friends. My brother and I would play catch in my Grandma’s back yard while she listened to the Red’s game on the radio. My only […]
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Down on the Farm
I was raised on a farm. My father was not sure about farming early in his working life, but decided on it when I was just a toddler. I eventually grew just big and strong enough to be somewhat helpful in the work that had to be done. We didn’t have a tremendously large operation, […]
Making an Impact
When I do my best to recall my earliest memories, the farthest back I can go is to a time that I would have been about two years old. My parents lived in a house on the Ohio river in a small town called Ripley, Ohio. We moved to a farm house when I was […]
Northern Exposure
Over the past few days, we experienced a winter storm, dropping about twelve inches of snow on the area in about 48 hours. While this amount of snow is more than usual, it is not unprecedented for anyone who has spent more than a few winters in NE Ohio. It reminded me of a winter […]
Three Guiding Precepts
I have spent nearly fifty years of my life before realizing the value of time. I have heard that, when you distill everything about life, all that any person really has is the time that he/she spends during his/her life. To paraphrase Job (from the Bible): we all come into the world naked and we […]
Happy New Year!
Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I am not a big proponent of New Year resolutions, but I do believe in setting goals and forming action plans to attain them. Consequently, the end of a calendar year and the beginning of a new one is a natural time to reassess these goals and make necessary […]