URGENT TASK...Two-Week Life Redesign
I’m like you and everyone we both know. I have an incredibly stressful job. On any given day, I have executives who want speeches or...
Why do I do what I do, not what I want to do?
I want to be a writer. I want to create all day. I want to extricate myself from the minutia of suburban drudgery so I can live in a...
Beers and Archeology
Jim Merkl and a really old rock Earlier this week, I met Jim at Brink, a College Hill microbrewery close to where he and his wife Julie...
The Source of the Magic
Recently, I read a story in The Atlantic about the origins of some of contemporary music’s most popular songs. In Hit Charade, Nathanial...
"...with liberty (and security) and justice for all."
Another day in America, another massacre. Not a fan of background checks? Feeling good about the success of all those good guys with guns...
Mamma Stella
Pardon any typos. It was a long night. Two days ago, Anna brought home a young, dirty, abandoned mutt. The dog was a stray, found...
Just foolin'...
I’m sitting alone in an auto dealership, waiting for an oil change, tire rotation, and some sort of fuel injector check. Across the room,...
Always Looking on the Bright Side
Fire and Fury! Locked and Loaded! Woohoo! We have an atomic pissing match going on between two spoiled rich kids. Unfortunately for the...
Okay, the joke's over
Take a good look, people. What do these whack jobs have in common? I-Do-My-Own-Hair Award Winner (Tied for First) Unusually shaped Lives...
Pumped
I first saw him late on the night of December 17, 1977, in the middle of a historically cold and blizzard-prone Cincinnati winter, one...