Category: Friends
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On the Anderson Ferry
On the Anderson Ferry Originally uploaded by hjoew I like my friends. That’s why they are my friends. Plus I pay them.
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Don McPherson, 1957-2009
I awoke especially early this morning and began checking friends’ blogs and was shocked awake. Why? I found this very sad news. Don McPherson, whom I had not seen in about four years, passed away a few days ago. Tears stream down my face as I write this. Despite the distance and our friend-of-a-friend friendship,…
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United Nations meets on Fountain Square
Alan, Kenny, Joe, originally uploaded by hjoew. Alan, Kenny and I went to Colerain High School together, class of 1992. Back then we were all very much involved in the Colerain (now Clippard) YMCA’s Leaders Club, a volunteer service group for teenagers. Being in Leaders Club and the many friends I made and re-made during…
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Dancin’ fools!
Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! When Melissa and I hit the town, we hit it hard.
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Dammit, coach! Kickball is fun!
God, we’re bad. Last night we lost 17 to zero, marking our fifth straight kickball game without a win. Our team – Kara Thrace & Her Special Destiny, named by Team Captain James Czar – has lost other games by as many as 30 runs, though we came close once and only lost by one.…
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Your warehouse club membership pays to the end
I have an interest with things related to death – but not particularly death itself. Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum is one of my favorite places to take photographs, “Six Feet Under” is one of my favorite shows of all time, I volunteered at Fernside: A Center for Grieving Children for many years (and still…
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Lucky me
I am going to indulge a second. Wait. Isn’t that what blogs are for anyway? Well, regardless, today is my birthday. Happy Birthday to me! But I have felt so lucky today – especially in light of what happened Sunday. Melissa – my beautiful, talented, smart, funny, thoughtful, caring, tremendously supportive, understanding and kind girlfriend…
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Jim Tarbell in disguise
I think I must have walked by ex-Cincinnati Vice Mayor Jim Tarbell two or three times last night and did not recognize him. He was at the Cincy Fire Ball at – and to benefit – the Cincinnati Fire Museum. I nearly fell on the floor laughing when I realized in the waning moments of…
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Joe & the interns ride The Beast
At the Scripps Family Picnic (another way of saying “Post company picnic”) at Kings Island Saturday. After the cookout/ lunch/picnic/giveaway bonanza, my cousin, Marianne (in town from Grenada until Wednesday), and I met up with three of The Post’s five interns and headed for the world’s longest wooden roller coaster (and according to many roller…
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Cat has blog to talk about sad, pathetic life
So, this “cat” I know has a blog. And every time I read it I think I’m going to wet my pants I’m laughing so hard. It’s like Toonces the Driving Cat, but instead it’s Paris Hilton – in the form of a kitty cat – who, like the heiress, is at the same time…