10/28/07

I have just finished Project Vote Smart’s “2008 Presidential Political Courage Test.”   The following is an example of another 100 word essay I wrote for the test, this one on “Social Security Issues”:   I told the News Gazette … Continue reading

8/4/07

“average JoeOhio Tour” cont.:   We traveled north to Ashtabula, Ohio, where we met with Jane and Margo Stuart who own “Silver Sands” assisted living home for the elderly.   It is an assisted living home with a twist, or … Continue reading

5/4/07

I just read a review of a new book titled Boomsday.   The review said it was a “wickedly funny” fictitious book about the 77 million “Baby Boomers” moving into retirement — by stepping aside and committing mass suicide…   … Continue reading

3/21/07

In the last post, I talked about being at a “Prayer Service to Abolish the Death Penalty.”    During the  service, facilitator Tim Musser read the following:   Capital punishment is not what Jesus taught.   It is what he … Continue reading

2/8/06

I interviewed Frances and Jack Huck in Picayune, Mississippi. Several years ago they converted a free-standing garage on their property into a two bedroom apartment for Frances’s elderly mother and an aunt. It cost $23,000 to covert the garage to … Continue reading

9/29/01

Spent yesterday working on a third book about Bluffton, Ohio titled: America’s Best Town 3. Some say it would be hard to write one book about a town of 3,877 people, much less three. However, Bluffton merits it. If there … Continue reading

7/7/05

More vignettes from the last few days on the trail: While at the headwaters of the Mississippi at Lake Itasca, I was interviewed by Minnesota State University’s Martin Grindeland, who teaches Mass Communications. His class was doing a documentary on … Continue reading

4/23/05

Met with Jim Stevenson who is the assistant to the Director of Cleveland’s “Department on Aging.” He said the Department has recently developed a “Senior Strides Program” for people over 55 who are looking for work. And that’s a good … Continue reading