In theory, sleigh bells and muckrakers go together like Nicholas Sparks and Stephen King. So what compelled me to lump them together in my first e-book published earlier this year? I had written some stories and allowed them to simmer on the back burner for a while. The Internet and the explosion of publishing without…
M: Hello, elated? E: Is that you melancholy? M: Yeah, it’s me. E: How you hanging in there good buddy? M: I’m melancholy. How do you think I’m hanging in there? E: Right. Well cheer up because it’s a glorious and beautiful day! M: I suppose. Anyway, I just wanted to congratulate you on winning…
Police responded to a disturbance last Tuesday at approximately 6:55 PM in the parking lot at Arby’s on James Street. An elderly woman named Miss Othmar, who played the teacher in the Charlie Brown TV specials, was taken into custody and later released on $25,000 bail. Surveillance video of the entire incident was secured and…
Tracy Kidder writes in Home Town ‘how small a piece of time the living occupy’. In this instance he is referring to a place where a mental hospital once stood, now a mound of dirt covered in snow where children go sledding. This transformation is just one example in Northampton, Massachusetts – the physical cornerstone…
This is an article I wrote in January of 2012. It was published as a letter to the editor by the nice people of “The Neighborhood News” in Garfield Heights, Ohio. The content remains relevant because it concerns K-12 public school funding in Ohio and some of the challenges that school districts face when school levies…
In 1986 the Beastie Boys told us we’ve got to fight for our right to party. Fast forward twenty-six years. I was a grown man in my 40s. My daughter was about to celebrate the sacrament of Confirmation at St. Stanislaus Church. I wanted to throw a party for her. That meant I had to…
I had the pleasure of sitting down with an anteater a few weeks ago and boy did he want to get some things off his chest. He was in the midst of a hunger strike, day 44. His demands: 1. He wants more stuffed animals, if any, created in his likeness. 2. He wants more…
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