Given the events of the year that just concluded, it’s no wonder that the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year — announced early last month — was “polarization.” The dictionary folks weren’t suggesting that it’s getting too cold. Quite the opposite, actually. This polarization has ...
It’s almost that time of year. Fresh off a month or more of holiday binge eating (and/or drinking) from Thanksgiving to Christmas and into the New Year, we catch an unfortunate glimpse of ourselves in a full-length mirror and realize we’ve gone off the rails. Perhaps way, way off the ...
Christmas is almost here and if you’re like me, you’ve again waited until nearly the last possible moments to do any shopping. Every year, I tell myself that THIS YEAR will be the one when I finally do all of my Christmas shopping ahead of time. And why not? Like a lot of people, I have an Amazon account so I can have just about anything delivered to my front door in a day or two. So you’d think I’d have burned through my list, checked it twice and ordered all those gifts back in September or October at the latest. You’d think that. But you’d be wrong. So here we are, a ...
Death — or the distinct possibility that you may be facing it — is a sobering experience. And I get that we’re all going to get there sooner or later. I have no illusions about that. By the time you reach your 50s, you’ve seen and likely dealt with a lot of it. The carefree thought of an infinite future that we all have as kids or young adults has long evaporated. No one can predict the when or why. But as my former boss Dave Burcham liked to say, “None of us are getting out of here alive.” I’m no exception. When you stare death in the face and have no other choice ...
“Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honesty is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you” — Billy Joel, “Honesty,” from the 1978 album “52nd Street” I don’t think Billy wrote that song with politics in mind, but he might as well have. As ...
Let’s hope we’ve all emerged from the annual post-Thanksgiving Day, tryptophan-induced coma by now. Whatever you do today, you don’t want to sleep through The Game. With any luck, the annual grudge match will be over by the middle of the second quarter and Ohio State will be on its ...
