I had the opportunity to step back into the past a few days ago. The Morristown Historic Preservation Association, the Underground Railroad Museum Board of Directors, members of Ohio Mid-Eastern Governments Association, and Morristown Mayor Heather Stitt welcomed John Carey, director of the ...

This past week I was invited to speak and give a benediction at the OVAC Evening with the Stars Dinner at the White Palace in Wheeling. This is the time when the All-Star football players from the state of Ohio play against the All-Star football players of West Virginia. They also include the ...

Ah, the crunch of grass beneath your feet ... wait a minute. Grass isn’t supposed to sound like that. Especially not in early July. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have found the weather conditions of this young summer to be brutal. Already in late June, the grass on my lawn had ...

The USA is one of the few countries in the world whose people have personal liberty (i.e. freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to gather, etc.) and economic opportunity. It takes both to create true freedom. In the Disney films, The Little Mermaid, King Triton tells his daughter ...

As the warm embrace of summer continues, now is the perfect time to make memories that will last all year long without having to travel far. In an era where travel often dominates our summer plans, there’s a quiet revolution brewing closer to home: the art of the staycation. Defined not by ...

A lot of people enjoy fireworks on the Fourth of July, but I had some fireworks of my own on Thursday that I did not enjoy at all. I was making my way through the day and popped something in the microwave to warm up. I stepped across the kitchen and around the corner when I realized that the ...