2020

February 8th, it is. All day long. If you write it out in numbers, it becomes 2/8. Two ate. When share your can of beans with a pal. February is a funny month. It is our only month that has 28 days. Four weeks even. Except every fourth year, like this one, which they call

I don’t know how Punxsutawney Phil is doing in your neck of the woods, but since he came out of his dang hole, all we have had around here is bad weather. Up until Phil got in the game, it was downright balmy in southwest Ohio. The past two days have been 1. ice and

Most of the time, I joke about taking the night off from writing. It is a little gag I pull, every once in a while. When I say it, I go ahead and write a piece, about something, anyway. And then I laugh at the end, “Ha, nothing to say here, folks.” Tonight, I’m really

  Most of the time, I try to keep it light here, even when the world around us can feel anything but that way. I don’t want you to think that I’m turning a blind eye, it is simply that I’m not sure being divisive in my words will help anything. In fact, this morning,

We had those big, thick Sears-Roebuck and J.C. Penny catalogs. Glossy pages, in color, beautiful, marvelous catalogs. And for several weeks during the late, late, fall, we would cart those catalogs around like little old Sunday school teachers, guarding their bibles. The best was on Saturday mornings, when we were allowed to have waffles, or

It happened in East Liverpool, Ohio. If you don’t know East Liverpool, it is in Columbiana County, in the northeast corner of the state. A very small county, population wise, with only 11,000 people there today. There is a Ceramics Museum on Fifth Street, and the “World’s Largest Teapot.” But not much else, really. At

Three things stand out about February 2, as I look back on some history pages. This struck me in an oddly profound way. I’ll tell you why. In a little minute. Feb. 2, 1925. Sears-Roebuck opened its first store. They did this in the Merchandise building which was part of it’s headquarters, located in Chicago.

I can pick my poison any day, of the headlines that I might write about. • The impeached president will remain in office and most likely be re-elected after the pre-decided Congressional trial. • Coronavirus spreads rapidly and the U.S. declares a public health emergency. • Britain has officially left the EU. • U.S. National