local museum display Continuing to catch up on the last few months… Part of our campaign is to ask people to consider, well, going back to the 1950’s. Not in every respect, like, for instance, Segregation. But back to a … Continue reading →
Joe Catching up on the last month(s)… I wrote a newspaper article series on a workshop collective of 15 Rwandan women who, in trying to recover from the genocide, do extremely beautiful, and painstaking, embroidery art (using multi-color fine thread) … Continue reading →
America cloud? …photo by Joe Catching up on the summer of 2025 (part 5)… I took this photo, about a month back, near sunset, looking west from my office. Look at the bottom of the cloud, on the right side. … Continue reading →
History Museum football helmet, circa the 1950s. …photo by Joe Catching up on the summer of 2025 (part 4)…. I wrote a newspaper article this summer about a local man who played football for Cincinnati University in the 1950s. He … Continue reading →
Ray Brown mural Catching up on the summer of 2025 (part 3)… I did a series of stories on the new Ray Brown Memorial Park slated to be dedicated soon in Alger, Ohio. A history professor at Ohio Northern University, … Continue reading →
Rural El Salvador missions trip Catching up on the summer of 2025 (part 2)… I wrote a newspaper article about a local couple, both trained paramedics, who go to rural El Salvador every year to help with various medical missions. … Continue reading →
Mobile Clinic …photo by Joe Catching up on the summer of 2025 (part 1)… I wrote a series of newspaper articles about Ohio Northern University’s Healthwise Mobile Clinics (the newest one is pictured here). It’s a rural healthcare safety net, … Continue reading →
Migrant children organize for a soccer game in Ohio As I type this, the deportation riots rage in LA. Meanwhile, this photo is of migrant farm worker children who are going to a bi-lingual school while their parents work in … Continue reading →
article on astrobiology I just re-read an article on astrobiology in this edition of National Geographic. I like to think of my political orientation as “commonsenstrist.” (*My spell check is saying that’s not a word. But it is. Anyway…) Scientists, … Continue reading →
elawtalk.com photo I was recently talking with a local law enforcement officer who is in the early stages of trying to develop an initiative to get statewide mental health coverage for all first responders. He said that currently, some municipality … Continue reading →