Southwestern Ohio is at Defcon 5 today – has been since Wednesday, when the first Winter Storm Warning was posted.  Yesterday, the grocery stores were jammed and there were long lines at the gas stations.  The forecast is for 4” to 8”.  For those of you...

So I’m reading through my e-mail this morning, and I see the comment that our friend Sharon Lindquist-Skelley attached to yesterday’s blog post – “Greg, Tim Holtz and Sizzix just announced 3 new dies this morning. Can't wait for them to show up on the Marco's website....

I can honestly say that I didn’t buy a single thing on Cyber Monday this year.  Or Black Friday, for that matter.  However, I did make a quick detour on the way to the mail center on Small Business Saturday to let American Express help me buy a box of Esther...

I have been following the “Opening on Thanksgiving for Black Friday” conversations and commentaries in the media and social media with a personal interest – because it affects our family gatherings this year.  Ryan has to leave for work at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday...

This has been a week for retrospection – a look back 50 years into our past.  On TV, in the newspaper, online – it was everywhere.  Here is another – it is related, but only peripherally . . .   I can't begin to count how many times I walked underneath...

There has been a trend on Facebook lately – people write a list of things that you may not know about them, and if you “like” the list you are rewarded with a number.  Then you are supposed to write a similar list with that many things about yourself.  It...

I have heard from both of our surgery patients (or in Joe Krivitski’s case, a “representative”) . . .Kathy posted the following on her Facebook page Wednesday afternoon – “So it's been 24 hours since Joe's total hip replacement. He is doing ok despite being sore from...

I got a message last night from our friend Joe Krivitski from Seaside Stampin’ Ink – he was scheduled to have a total hip replacement this morning at 8:45 and was requesting prayers from those folks who lifted up his wife Kathy, his daughter Danielle, and his...

Thanks to all of you who have flooded my friend Melinda Doster with prayers, cards and e-mails both before and after her recent surgery.  I got an e-mail from her overnight with an update and a request that I post it, especially for those she hasn’t had a chance...

I have always been indebted to our customers.  Two of them changed my life 18 years ago when they wandered into the little front room of our print shop.  They saw the stacks of paper and scraps that we sold by word of mouth to churches, teachers, etc., and...