I was an RA (resident assistant) in a dorm for one year at Ohio University.  The reason is explained in...

One summer when we were in Las Vegas, we decided to hike up White Mountain, a little over 14,000 feet....

Pete Rose was one of my favorite baseball players.  One evening he was a the guest on the Larry King...

The best race I ever ran was a 10-miler in Huntington, West Virginia.  It was 47 degrees and overcast, on...

A rim-to-rim (r2r) is about 21 miles or so, depending on which South Rim trail you use. In 2017, a...

At 22,841 feet, Cerro Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Americas and is surpassed in height only by the...

There’s only one place in Grand Canyon National Park where you can drive right to the edge of the Colorado...

I had my first helicopter ride yesterday! I drove to Canyonlands National Park yesterday morning, to the trailhead for the...

The Crooksville Pottery Festival 10K Race was on a hot, muggy Saturday morning in early August. It was the kind...

Athens, OH was/is situated in a unique spot in regards to television markets. We got the major networks from Columbus,...

I had pretty much given up any hope of tracking down my birth father.  I hoped that after tracking down...

Mabel Plants was the nicest person I ever met.  She the secretary in Social Services at Holzer Medical Center when...

In Fall of 2015, I told my son that for Christmas I didn’t want “stuff”.  I wanted an experience.  Well,...

A few months after the embarrassment of Sandra meeting Earl, our office secretary, Linda, confided in me that she was...

One of the best students I ever had working for me was Rich Swingley. Very talented and a very hard...

Our Engineers in Media Services repaired quite a bit of audio-visual equipment on campus.  To do so required replacement parts,...

My office was in the same suite as Earl’s, right next to his to be precise.  Our Chief Engineer, Bill...

Earle was a caring son.  When his mother came to visit, he knew he couldn’t leave her at home with...

I would drive from Athens to Holzer Medical Center for an hour—50 minutes on a good day—down Route 689 through...

In 1975, I interviewed for my first real job as Site Coordinator with the Ohio Valley Medical Microwave System, a...

My new boss at NAU was John Glenn, the Dean of Continuing Education and a grandfatherly-like figure—and someone who I...

Mary Katherine Laurick—“Kay” to her friends and lovers—was intelligent, attractive, confident, and engaging.  It was the summer of 1975.  I...

I was in the process of hiring a producer/director.  My top candidate was Sandra Lundgren.  If hired, this would be...

I started working for the Ohio University Food Service Department was I was on 13 years old. It was back...

I’ve always coached youth baseball–except for one year when I coached Saturday morning basketball.  One of my baseball players, Bennie...

In sixth grade I joined the band. I don’t remember why, and I have no recollection why the clarinet was...

Earl Hilke was a Navy man. You knew that because he swore like the stereotypical sailor.  I’ve never before or...

My grandmother, my dad’s mother, lived in tiny house perched on the side of the hill on Union Street. I...

We had only won two games during the regular season. It wasn’t for lack of trying.  We played hard but...

My freshman year in high school was the last one at the old high school in town. During band practice...

After graduating from OU in 1975 with my bachelor’s in communication, I didn’t really have a job lined up. I...

I’ve been to New Orleans twice.  The first time for a conference, which was the first conference I ever attended,...

Jay Gardner was the first player I ever drafted.  A really good kid, and a good shortstop and pitcher.  In...

One year our league affiliated with the national Babe Ruth Baseball organization.  This was for 13-, 14-, and 15-year-olds.  But...

Chris Scheuer was the best baseball player I ever coached.  One time, Chris came up to me before the game...

On Sundays, my parents and I would go to my Aunt Rose’s house to either just visit or take her...

The French City Run, a race I named, was a 10K race on what was essentially my training course through...

Running is different than jogging. Running means competing.  Jogging means kind of wandering around with no real goal.  For about...

For thirteen- and fourteen-year-old kids, playing baseball in the summertime is supposed to be fun. The Electric Company team was...

Harry Houska had been a champion wrestler and was now the coach of the OU wrestling team. Like most college...

When the National League consisted of two divisions, the Reds and Dodgers were big rivals. It was 1975 and the...

John Wagner wasn’t a very talented ballplayer, but he tried hard all the time, didn’t complain, and always showed up....

I once coached a team that lost every game—0-12. It’s harder to do than one would think.  Pure luck ought...

We’re playing Bank One in our postseason tournament, a team much more talented than us. Late in the game, though,...

It’s certainly no fun to be in a hospital.  Even more so, it’s no fun being there during a holiday. ...

I’ve always been fascinated by space—outer space, not empty-room space.  In the sixties, I closely watched the Mercury, Gemini, and...

Running is different than jogging. Running means competing.  Jogging means kind of wandering around with no real goal. For about...

An interesting character was Chris Cossey.  Extremely likeable. A talker. An artist. A hard worker.  A divorced and devoted dad...