White Death Alert . . .

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...

A Head Start on CHA 2014 . . .

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...

How I Spent My Cyber Monday . . .

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...

A Look Back . . .

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...

17 Things . . .

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...