Fall in Ohio means AMAZING temperatures and… yep, grilling, football, and marching bands. We’ve hit Cedar Point a few times (Halloweekends in full swing), and celebrated Amor y Amistad on prompting from a Colombian friend (I made a Colombian egg salad for dinner, amongst other things). We also sold our van, Jonas (photo below taken…

June, July, August… half of September. It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I’m just going to give a quick rundown. In June the kids started coming home from college, etc. By August everybody was home – packed house to say the least! But it was awesome. In addition to hitting all the cool…

Today marks an important day in my life, a day that I learned that humor and laughter can go a long way with regard to making people feel better. About 40 years ago-ish I sent an April Fools Day phone call down the hill to my grandparents house (Gran and Pop to us locals) with…

Red Hill Mining Town (U2, The Joshua Tree, 1987) just crossed through on Spotify and I was immediately taken back over 20 years. Living in SW Washington state at that time, I graduated college in the early 2000’s and was on a massive U2 kick on that point in my life. Red Hill Mining Town…