Pine cones are holiday magic
Pine Cones are a familiar holiday decoration, but how much do you really know about them? While many types of trees have cones, you’ve...
Hark, the Golden Buckeye card!
What a lovely holiday gift. This month, I received an invitation to join the “ranks of nearly 2.4 million Ohioans eligible for a Golden...
The court as critic
“No one was listening, and I feared these matters would be thrown out like all others, without even considering the merits. Thus, I switched...
A time of advent
For Christians, we’ve entered a time in the four Sundays before Christmas where we look with anticipation to the “advent” or “coming” of Christ....
Lost stories of World War II
While I was growing up in the 60s, my father never said very much about his time in the Army Air Corps during World...
Let the Winter Reading Club begin
It’s Dec. 1 and I cannot contain my holiday spirit anymore. Not that I was doing such a great job suppressing it. (My tree...
Bobbleheads and the tax man
“If the General Assembly prefers that sports organizations pay use tax on promotional items under the circumstances presented here, it can amend the Revised...
Getting ourselves in tune
When we go to the symphony, one thing that’s certain before anything else is the sound of an oboe playing a tuning note. The...