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Monday, June 8, 2026

Our $50,000 hockey investment has yielded a million dollars' worth of family fun and memories

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I had never been a season ticket holder for any sport when the Lake Erie Monsters came to Cleveland in 2007. But I knew I liked hockey, and ...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Forty years into this thing, I think I'll keep her

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This is Terry and me the night of her senior prom in 1987. We were babies. This Saturday, my wife and I will celebrate our 34th wedding anni...
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Monday, May 25, 2026

The only 3 things I don't like about summer

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When you live in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. as I do, you spend a good chunk of the year looking forward to summer (which as far as I...
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Monday, May 18, 2026

Why does everyone around me suddenly seem so young?

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I feel a lot like this white-haired guy each time I announce a baseball game. Recently I was chatting with some of my  Lake County Captains ...
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Monday, May 11, 2026

Everything can change (for the better) with a single phone call

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It was a Thursday in late April. I was working from home and had come downstairs to spend a few minutes with my daughter Chloe and grandson ...
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Monday, May 4, 2026

Nothing beats the hotel pool when you're traveling with kids

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  A video clip of us in a hotel pool, somewhere outside of Philadelphia, 2006. We used to take a couple of road trips every year when the ki...
Monday, April 27, 2026

When people say nice things about your kids

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This is going to sound strange, but when Terry and I used to go to our children's parent-teacher conferences, it was always somewhat unc...