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Ella's Cancer Crushers

Join Ella’s Cancer Crushers

My daugh­ter Ella has been through a lot in her young life.  She is an amaz­ing lit­tle girl, and reg­u­larly makes me a proud father.  Yes­ter­day she wrote and then sent the fol­low­ing mes­sage to fam­ily and friends.  She is cre­at­ing a team to increase com­mu­nity aware­ness of can­cer and raise money for can­cer research.  […]

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Help for Jude

A few weeks ago one of my wife’s clos­est friends, Molly Housh, got together with my sister-in-law Katie Dun­can and decided that they were going to try to do some­thing to help my son Jude and my fam­ily.  The result has been noth­ing short of spec­tac­u­lar, as friends, fam­ily mem­bers, busi­ness col­leagues, and com­plete strangers […]

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The 1982 World’s Fair

Recently I have been see­ing a lot of news about the splen­dor and spec­ta­cle that is the 2010 World’s Fair in Shang­hai, China. This event is expected to attract between 70 and 100 mil­lion vis­i­tors, as coun­tries, busi­nesses, and entre­pre­neurs from around the world seek to gain access to the rapidly grow­ing Chi­nese mar­kets. Well […]

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Making The Cut

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 […]

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2009 — The Highlight Reel

2009 was an amaz­ing year for me.  I decided I would end the year with a blog post ver­sion of my high­light reel for the year.   Life has its share of ups and downs, but I feel like I get a lot more good than bad every day.  For that I am grate­ful.  It […]

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Go Fly A Kite

Some­times fam­ily fun can be as sim­ple as an open field, a nice breeze, and the desire to make some­thing defy gravity.

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Canal Street Tavern — Take Two

Last night Derek Wade and I took the stage at Canal Street Taven in Day­ton, Ohio for the sec­ond time in as many months.  We per­formed a half hour set of orig­i­nal music, that included a few new songs, a few old songs, and even a few songs with Derek play­ing Banjo.  While were were […]

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