February 21, 2023 Be afraid. Be very afraid. We knew it was coming, didn’t we? We had been warned. As far back as 1951, movies were forecasting the day when robots would…
February 15, 2023 R-E-S-P-E-C-T — We need more of it Was anyone else as embarrassed as I was at the level of rancor and rudeness on display at last week’s State of the Union…
February 2, 2023 Yeah, forsooth and verily, t’is this what I.A. be? Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) these days. The debate rages on as to whether it enhances creativity or devalues it. Or the…
January 3, 2023 Sports are fun until… Football is a sport. And sports are fun. Sure, there are times when that fun becomes bittersweet. Like when your favorite team misses a…
December 9, 2022 A curmudgeon’s Christmas wish: Less of the worn-out songs, more of the new originals Does anyone else hate that certain radio stations and most retail stores start playing only Christmas music in early November? And if that weren’t…
November 18, 2022 Age really is just a number Quite a few years ago, I was at a community prayer breakfast and happened to be seated next to the legendary Notre Dame coach…
November 14, 2022 Here are some of my mid-term musings Recent election cycles are like lingering hangovers. Between the prolonged vote counting and political pundit post-mortems, the discomfort goes on and on and on….
October 29, 2022 Another day in paradise, cold or otherwise One of my guilty pleasures in retirement is reading a good book. I find myself especially drawn to historical fiction and mystery novels. In…
October 7, 2022 Who says you can’t go back via a second honeymoon? The Cambridge dictionary describes a second honeymoon as a romantic holiday taken by a couple who have been married for some time. Although there…
September 29, 2022 A different career? A sports historian would have been pretty cool Recently, I wrote an article for this website about a daughter-driven project to tell the story of my life to my grandkids through a…
August 14, 2022 Here’s some questions to chew on In the spirit of the current Twizzlers TV campaign, I just thought I would share some truly profound questions for you to chew on. …
August 7, 2022 A modest proposal for putting the college sports genie back in the bottle College sports is a mess. I think most people will agree with that statement. However, the ideas I am about to put forth I…
July 29, 2022 Being ‘a good person’ may be the ultimate compliment In the 40 years my wife and I ran our marketing communications business, we had only one situation that required legal action. A highly…
July 4, 2022 Everyone has a story and here’s how I’m sharing mine with my offspring I’ve often wondered how or why ancient peoples did such a remarkable job of passing along oral histories from generation to generation. By contrast,…
June 23, 2022 A continuing mystery — or miracle — around Father’s Day To call my late father an avid gardener would be a profound understatement. After putting in 10-plus hours every working day as the head…
May 16, 2022 Youth sports: The Good, Bad & Ugly When I was in my youth, many years ago, participating in sports was simple. In the fall, you played football. In winter, basketball. In…
April 13, 2022 Brian Kelly shows true colors — and they aren’t pretty Being from Cincinnati, I heard a lot of negative opinions about Brian Kelly. At the time, I attributed it to sour grapes over the…
January 29, 2022 Cincinnati Bagels (Who Dey?) And Other NFL Playoff Observations From My Couch Cincinnati Bagels (Who Dey) & Other NFL Playoff Observations from My Couch Unless my 70-plus year-old brain is failing me again, I seem to…
January 5, 2022 This poetic plunge is not to be Early winter, the lake beckons us to skate. Though it may look like glass, I think it best to pass. For under my weight,…
November 5, 2021 A wonderful community that’s for the birds My wife and I bought our first home in the spring of 1975. It was in the Sunnymede area on the near east side…
