My bowling shoes are another year older (if you have read this blog for several years, this will make sense – if not, feel free to click here for the story).  My birthday was last Thursday, but since I was going to spend the whole day loading the truck and...

I’ll begin with an apology.  A customer made the following comment to me during the Fort Wayne show last weekend – “You haven’t posted much on the blog recently, have you?”  And she was right – I haven’t.  I’m sure that some would assume that the reason...

I know that some of you will be simply shocked to discover that this post is entirely work related (if you don’t feel that way, trust me – there are those who do).  But I really do work for a living – and over the past week or so we have learned about quite a few...

This story started with a conversation my brother and I had last November.  A bit of background – my nephew Tyler plays the tenor drums in the Miami University Marching Band (the real Miami – not that pretender in Florida – Miami was a university when Florida...

You may remember that back in February I asked for prayers for my mom’s sister Nancy, who was beginning her second bout with cancer.  That battle concluded on Sunday evening.  I have heard many times about people who “lost” their battle with cancer, but I...

I got at e-mail about 3:05 EDT Monday afternoon and the subject was “Marco’s Paper Blog Post” – which seemed rather strange to me since I haven’t written anything since Friday. Then I looked at the heading – “Arizona on My Mind” – and realized that it was a post from...

Anyone who knows me well knows that there are two things in life I truly dislike – cold and wet.  Therefore, I have kept a very low profile during this ALS Ice Bucket Challenge sweeping the nation through social media.  And still, Sandy Sandrus (her sister...

I was home only two weekends between the last weekend in June and this one – one of them was the Fourth of July Weekend and the other was the weekend that my nephew got married.  So all of my weekdays have been filled with either preparations for the coming...

So many have have assumed over the years that the Cincinnati show must be the easiest weekend of the year for us – and seem surprised when I snort in response.  Nothing could be farther from the truth – when we’re on the road, anything that isn’t in the booth is...

It has been much the same everywhere we have been this summer – the temps are lower than normal, humidity is down, everything is green from excessive rain.  I want all of these degrees we have been missing put into a fund so I can withdraw them in January . . ....