Back in early May — yeah, it’s been awhile — Mary Jo and I took a quick zip over to Charleston, South Carolina, to check out the city. We’d never been there before, we needed a little getaway, we’d heard great things about it from a bunch of friends and, more than anything, we wanted… Read More The Next Stop Tour: Charleston, SC
And now, for a screed … When I screwed up as a kid, which was every once in a while, my Dad would stop everything, give me a stare that my buddy Steve and I used to call the “OTG look” (Over the Glasses) and tell me, “You know better than that.” I thought of that last week… Read More What Dad used to say
A few quick updates to the ol’ blog at the beginning of a new year. Watch your step: *** For years in our house, we have celebrated birthday weeks. One day of cake and ice cream won’t do for us. We need a full seven days to get down that 12-inch fudge-covered yellow-cake monstrosity and a couple half-gallons of… Read More Starting again
I have spent probably 17 of the last 20 Christmas nights sleeping in a too-small bed in a strange room, going to sleep to the bells of St. William ringing down on a modest two-story house on the West Side of Cincinnati. It is my in-laws’ house, the house where Mary Jo grew up, the place where her parents raised… Read More Home for the holidays
The whole idea of 10,000 steps, as it’s understood among the health conscious, evidently originated in Japan in the 1960s with something called manpo-kei. I’d like to report that manpo-kei has some deep, inscrutable meaning — he who walks well moves like the dragonfly; or, with each step a life is enriched in 10,000 ways. But near as… Read More An ode to 10,000
Even in a metropolitan area of 6 million people or so, you can find a nice place to breathe, if you know where to look. We don’t get down to the Chattahoochee River much. Last time I was there was probably when Luke and I took a rafting trip eight or 10 years ago. But… Read More Hooch
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