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Take a moment and answer the following question: “What do you want to become?” What did you answer? Do you want to become smarter? Healthier? Happier? More financially stable? A better parent? A faster cyclist? A marathon runner? A more loyal friend? A more valuable employee? Whatever your answer, this is an important question to periodically ask of yourself, because the answers serve as the guide for all that you do. Time on this planet …read more
One of my goals for 2010 is to run 1,000 miles. Another is to complete my first marathon. Both – no surprise – are requiring me to run far and run often. When I chose these goals I assumed that the hardest part would be finding the strength to push ahead as the distance steadily increased through my training program. Surprisingly that is not really the case. What I am discovering as I cover longer …read more
Today I have learned a lesson about missed opportunity. You see for years I have been telling friends and family members that I wanted to write a coffee table book about the wonderful oddities located in the immediate vicinity of the Monroe, Ohio exit on I-75. I thought it would be fun to tell the stories of the people who live, work, and visit this very eclectic place in Southwestern Ohio. After all, the exit …read more
This year I have been trying to pay a little more attention to my health. I now find myself exercising much more, trying to get a little more sleep, and paying more attention to the things that I eat and drink every day. As part of this effort to live better, I have been trying to incorporate flax seed into my diet because of it’s reported ability to lower cholesterol, stabilize blood pressure, fight off …read more
It recently occurred to me that through the course of my life I have devoted way too much time to socks. Yes, socks. No, I don’t have some weird sock fetish or a creepy sock collection, but rather I have spent countless minutes here and there sifting through laundry baskets, rummaging through drawers, and searching aimlessly for matches to my various socks. Brown socks, blue socks, black socks, running socks, tube socks, argyle socks, each …read more
Sunday morning, and time for me, Chef Daddy, to make a pancake breakfast for the kiddos. With little ones, one of the challenges of pancakes is cutting them up in smaller pieces so the kids can eat them without making a mess. Truth be told I like them that way too. Here is a simple tip for quickly and easily cutting pancakes up into perfect pieces. Use your pizza cutter. The pizza cutter is safer …read more
This morning I was privileged enough to be given the opportunity to take a preview tour of the Without Sanctuary exhibit at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was part of a group of about 10 people granted the opportunity to walk through the exhibit, share my feedback, and now tell others my thoughts. Without Sanctuary is a display of photographs, newspaper articles, and various cultural artifacts that depict the more …read more
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