Talked with Baldwin Wallace College’s Professor Tom Sutton. He said the “greening” of Cleveland goes on. The city is just starting to develop a six-acre urban farm, complete with Amish organic farm consultants. Across the street from … Continue reading
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Joe I just wrote a newspaper column on the heels of a tremendously violent helmet-to-helmet hit on Texas Cowboy QB Andy Dalton Sunday. While he got a severe concussion from it, it could have snapped his neck. I note in … Continue reading
photo by Joe [pre-pandemic] This week I wrote a piece for the newspaper on a Youth For Christ (YFC) outreach in a hardscrabble area of Lima, Ohio. This place, as you see here (pre-pandemic), is usually bustling with youth activity, … Continue reading
photo by Joe I covered a George Floyd Protest Rally this week in our village. Some 300 people came together for a peaceful, and poignant, protest. There were prayers, songs, testimonies about racism… But the one thing that was missing … Continue reading
Zimbio photo In the last post, the priest notes that our societies throughout the world are saturated with sin these days, and God has sent a virus to let us know in the physical, just how sick we have become … Continue reading
On the way back from my kid’s soccer game in Archbold, Ohio, I stopped at the McDonald’s in Defiance, Ohio, to do a little “populist stumping.” While passing out campaign cards, I got in a conversation with this guy, Jay … Continue reading
Earlier in our campaign travels we stopped in Selma, Alabama. Part of extensive cross-country touring included teaching our children American history. Here my wife Liz is explaining to our Sarah about “Bloody Sunday” at the Emund Pettus Bridge. –photo by … Continue reading
Catching up on the last month… I’ve been reading some of the book Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Last night I was reading a section that included that Kennedy wrote in 1967: “…we are two worlds.” … Continue reading
Wednesday night my son Jonathan and I played basketball under the lights in Lima, Ohio. That didn’t just happen. Several months ago, Jonathan and I volunteered for an evening at a Youth for Christ outreach called Rally Point. Following the … Continue reading
In a book titled: The Ohio Reader, I was reading a section today that noted the lack of social workers is contributing to over-crowding in the psychiatric units throughout the state. With less social workers in the field, to help … Continue reading