What’s best time to water plants?
Proper watering is an important part of gardening. Lasting damage can occur when leaves and stems wilt.Regular watering helps keep plants and trees growing....
Recycled, restored and repurposed
I’ve long considered my vocation a call to the field of recycling, restoration, repurposing. I recognize this in myself, because I, too, have been...
Now is time to thrive again
Here we are.Together, we’ve weathered the worst of COVID, racial reckoning, and political upheaval of the past three years.In our jobs and at home,...
Protecting workers from surprise layoffs
In Ohio, we’ve had too many cases of companies closing down and giving workers barely any notice that they’re losing their jobs.Many workers find...
Healing hearts, big and small
Here the birds are singing. I wonder if they too are glad for a break from the muggy hot climate on this early morning?...
Warning: What you can’t see can kill
The monster, fentanyl, struck again. Two bright, young Ohio State University students appear to have joined the heart-breaking list of Ohioans who died by...
Mushrooming God’s creative glory
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”– Albert Einstein“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”– Proverbs 27:17Today, I met...
Life lessons learned from dad
I’ve talked a lot about my late mother in previous columns and how growing up I was a momma’s boy, but I’m the man...
It’s time we all come together
I have had the word reconciliation floating around in my thoughts for a while now. Life feels so disjointed as we come together following...
The hero in our home
It was Memorial Day and our neighbors stopped in with red roses in honor of our hero who went to be with Jesus. Though...