Category: Thoughts & Observations
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Family headed to Germany
Seven family members – including my Uncle Rick, his wife and three kids, my grandmother and my Dad – are about to head to Germany. We’re from there. My Dad and grandmother immigrated to the United States in 1954 when my Dad was about 7 1/2 years old. This will be his second-ever trip back…
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Best Cincinnati hairdos
I keep seeing that commercial for the law firm of Elk and Elk. I don’t know what they specialize in professionally (probably personal injury), but I do know they specialize in bad comb-overs and odd haircuts. That is completely obvious. How can anyone take them seriously? They stare sternly at the camera… and I want to…
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Doctor “hero” at Giffords shooting says he and others are just “normal people”
Image via Wikipedia I heard this quote on ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” today and I really liked it. Choking back tears, Dr. David Bowman, who was shopping with his wife at the Safeway store in Tuscon, Arizona where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot and six others were killed by an alleged lone gunman,…
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Choosing differently?
I have my hiding places around town. They’re all over the place. In parks, on vistas, inside coffee shops, at dead ends, in cemeteries, at airports. They are on the West Side, the East Side and in neighboring little towns in Ohio and states that have reciprocal income tax agreements with Ohio. Most I can…
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Pete Rose has given us back what he took away
Image via Wikipedia I’m not a sports guy. Let’s make that clear from the get-go. Any sport I tried to play as a kid ended up embarrassingly bad – including my career-ending smack-in-the-face at one of my very first pitch baseball games. I was in the second grade. Growing up in Cincinnati meant loving, at minimum, two…
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Sunday morning tune
Caught Lorna Parson of Sharonville this morning as she tapped the keys on a “Play me, I’m Yours” piano on the lawn of the Wyoming Arts Center in Wyoming. She was playing “Yankee Doodle” from a beginner’s piano lesson book and said she was attempting to hit all 35 pianos before the program officially ends…
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Sign of the times? Janitor/funeral home driver fired for parking body
I cannot help but wonder if the guy who was working as both a school janitor and a part-time funeral home driver had something to do with the pay at one of his job? Regardless, life is all about the choices we make. Now this guy is out his funeral home driving pay. No charges…
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Parking enforcement officer writes ticket for after 8 – before 8
Just watched as a neighbor of mine got a ticket for parking in an after-8 a.m. truck loading zone along Perry Street in downtown Cincinnati (even though this alley hasn’t been used for loading trucks in probably 30 years). Only problem was it wasn’t after 8 a.m. – even when the officer handed the neighbor…
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Finally. Ross’s Web site is done
I’ll give you this: Me owning a self-storage facility is not exactly what I envisioned as a child when I thought of professions I might like to pursue. Might seem my destiny was already somewhat sealed when Mom and Dad bought the nearly one-acre sized property in Butler County on the site of the former…
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What I said on Twitter today, November 19, 2009
JoeyWessels: I am on a complete and total geek high right now. It feels good. Real good. #fb JoeyWessels: I am on a complete and total geek high right now. It feels good. Real good. #fb JoeyWessels: I think I am officially feeling cold inside of a building for the first time this season. And…