Random thoughts from a journalist, photographer and relatively-new family guy – living and working in and around Cincinnati, Ohio.
MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Joe Wessels (513) 549-6397 NOTE: Please do not call the school or the principal directly through tomorrow. Please call Joe Wessels. Just a few quick updates/notes: We have been informed by The White House that an announcement is forthcoming at 11 a.m. EDT tomorrow, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. At this time we […]
A man who thought he was re-claiming his stolen bike off a bus rack was told by a bus rider – and the bike’s real owner – he might want to re-think his action. This all happened while I was riding a bus downtown from the University of Cincinnati: While a Cincinnati Metro bus was […]
Family gathering at Mom & Dad’s fine Ross abode, eating outside in this super great spring weather. Missing Shelly and the rest of her family…
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 […]
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 […]
I love fall here in the Midwest. Here are two examples of why. There are more photos I shot recently in a Flickr set. If you would like to visit either of these places, and I would highly recommend it, here is a quick way to do it. To get to Winton Woods. To learn […]
Intimate relationships are just plain not easy. Anyone who purports otherwise is either lying, crazy or has never been in one. I’m not married. I’m 35. Have had my share of relationships and have had my share of disappointments – including some big ones lately. Each new meeting with someone starts with so much promise, […]
Today, along with my Dad, Hermann, I am traveling west to just south of St. Louis (in Illinois) to pick up a car. Right now Pops is in the driver’s seat and I am in the front passenger seat, all teched out, with my mobile broadband card keeping me fully tethered to the online world, […]
Zoo family portait Originally uploaded by hjoew Back at the Cincinnati Zoo, I got a photo taken with some of the family.
Missing the evolutionary point Originally uploaded by hjoew Don’t know why this sort of stupidity still intrigues me enough to stop and photograph it. But it does. Typically this church has a different message in either side o their sign. Not this week this one was too good.