Catching up on the last couple months… It’s been a whirlwind of stuff in between house painting, parenting, writing, working on the campaign… We, for instance, have done a number of Facebook “…from the ladder” segments about such topics as … Continue reading
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With a shift in the El Nino pattern, things will be about 15 degrees warmer than normal in Ohio this next two weeks — which will afford me the opportunity to finish an outside painting job before winter sets in. … Continue reading
Buckeye Back Road Tours cont… In Wapakoneta, Ohio, I talked with a real estate appraiser who works in about a 100-mile radius around here. He said in the aftermath of the housing bubble bursting, there is still a significant number … Continue reading
I stopped at Ada, Ohio, (pop. 6,052), home of the Wilson Football Factory. They make the “official” NFL footballs here… While in downtown Ada, I met a woman whose husband had had a fatal heart attack during the middle of … Continue reading
Some more vignettes from our recent Buckeye Back Roads Tour: In Beaverdam, Ohio (Well, if you don’t carry Beaverdam, you’re not going to carry the country.), I put up a campaign flier at the local market. Then at Benroth Body … Continue reading
In the last couple weeks, the Repulicans and Democrats at their National Conventions have been tripping all over themselves in speeches talking about their “humble” middle class, or lower, beginnings. Meanwhile our family, and the campaign in general, live right smack dab … Continue reading
Some thoughts in the aftermath of the movie theatre shooting in Aurora, Colorado, early this morning… It happened at a Batman movie titled: Dark Knight Rises. The real shooting erupted during a shooting scene in the movie. As of late … Continue reading
The Senate is weighing a bill that would pull some subsidies from farmers, cutting about $5 billion from the Federal Budget annually. The genesis for farm subsidies came during the Great Depression and were safety nets for small farmers to … Continue reading
I was talking to a minister today who noted that the year Social Security was enacted in this country in 1935, the average life span for a white American was 62.9 years. (You couldn’t collect Social Security until you were … Continue reading
Our family drove across the border into Ft. Wayne, Indiana, last night for our kids’ homeschooling basketball games. It was at a recreation center that featured everything: “Indiana basketball.” There were pictures of Larry Byrd, Bobby Knight throwing that famous … Continue reading