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Honoring Ohio law enforcement
Each year during National Police Week, we honor our law enforcement officers, and the families who support them and sacrifice alongside them. They all...
Can we go home again?
Memories are embedded in our minds, but people and places change.Someone once said, “Attempting to relive childhood memories is an exercise doom...
Adapting to changes
A few days ago, I was cleaning brush out of a fence row bordering one of our family farm properties. Old fence lines are commonly found along the peri...
‘Dear Student’…a few words of advice
Dear Student,This school year seemed to go by more quickly than all of the others. The older you get, the more you’ll realize that yourself. I&#...
Graduation time in America
Everyone looks forward to graduation. For the high school senior it seemed like the day would never come. The college graduate breathes a sigh of reli...
How to prepare new landscape beds
Spring is a fun time for adding plants to your gardens and creating new planting beds. It’s easy to fall in love with new plants as you browse y...
Supporting Ohio nurses and patients
Every day, nurses in Ohio communities work long hours doing vital work in our health care system, keeping patients safe and providing the highest qual...
It was murder … we thought
It was a little before midnight, and the credits for Raymond Chandler’s movie “Farewell, My Lovely” had just rolled as my wife, Bren...
The age of junk values
From the moment we wake up in the morning, until we hit the sheets at night, our days are filled with choices. What to wear. What to drink. What to ea...
Hoping for an ‘endless’ summer
I don’t remember much about my last official day of high school — and probably not just because it was, quite literally, more than half a ...
