In the last couple weeks, I continue with a relatively big house painting project (Joe the Painter, cont.)… I’m also continuing to do interviews for my wife Liz’s magazines. Of particular note is an interview I did with a 13-year-old … Continue reading →
More from our “Buckeye Back Roads” stumping… In Cavett, Ohio (pop. a cluster of 10 houses), a guy with a paint brush in hand and paint stains on his jeans was standing in a doorway. I approached, smiled and said: “As … Continue reading →
Busy week… A story about the campaign ran in the Bluffton News (circ. 2,000) yesterday. Well if you don’t carry Bluffton, you’re not going to carry the country. The story noted that I was being billed as “average Joe the … Continue reading →
Talked in Terry Armstrong’s government class at Labrea High School in Leavittsburg, Ohio, today. Mr. Armstrong is one of the most proactive high school government teachers we’ve met in our travels across the country. He brings candidates in … Continue reading →
Montana Moseying Campaign Tour cont: We stood in solidarity with a group protesting in front of an abortion clinic in Billings. (I told the Lewiston-Argus newspaper in Lewiston, Montana, several campaigns back, that as president I’d … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: I gave a talk to a Political Analysis Class at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, today. I turned it into a “town hall” style meeting and asked the students what some … Continue reading →
My daughter Sarah and I did some volunteer work last night at a nearby “drop-in” center for the ‘Lazarrus’s at the gate (see last entry)’ in our Cleveland neighborhood. These are the poor, the homeless. During the night … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Memorial Day… We went on a family picnic in the “Metro Park” in Rocky River, Ohio, today. While eating lunch, we talked to our children about their grandfather (on my side) flying jets off aircraft carriers for the Navy. (He … Continue reading →