Holiday Favorites

It’s Christmas and I was thinking about favorites vs. traditions. For us, we don’t really follow many traditions but we do have favorites. Mainly though, we like to try new things for the holidays. This year those new items included the Nutcracker, believe it or not, which was outstanding! We saw it performed by the … Continue reading Holiday Favorites →

Bags

Muzetto Leather Bag Ok, yes, I have a weakness. Computer bags, whatever the style. Backpacks, messenger bags, briefcases, sling bags, whatever. I like them all. Heck, I probably like styles I haven’t heard of yet too! One of the first computer bags I had wasn’t a computer bag at all. It was a soft sided, … Continue reading Bags →

Click

Clicks can be important. In this case I’m not talking about clicking a software button but the click that you hear when something physical happens or something that can mentally happen when things fall in place and something that was dim or difficult becomes clear. The first click I want to talk about is the … Continue reading Click →

Restoration

One of my favorite writers, the auto journalist Peter Egan, wrote this: “One thing I've discovered over the past three years on these short weekend trips is that the lakes don't get exponentially bluer as you get farther from home.” He wrote this in his Cycle World Leanings column many years ago. He was obviously … Continue reading Restoration →

Things

Emotional attachment to things. Do we have them? Should we have them? Do I have them? If so, what things am I emotionally attached to? I can’t answer the first two but I can examine the second two. This subject crossed my mind recently as I’ve been selling a number of items. I can’t say … Continue reading Things →

Bicycles

I ride bicycles. Yep. If you hadn’t already figure that out, well, you know now! Bicycles are something that I not only ride, they are also something I am deeply interested in, from a nerd, geek, engineer kind of way. Much like cars and motorcycles. But, and here is the interesting part, I’ve owned many, … Continue reading Bicycles →

Steve

We first met back in 2011 when my wife and I were house hunting. There was a small house we liked that was in its own little canyon. The house wasn’t anything special but the grounds were. There was a small, year round brook, that flowed through the property. The brook had a small … Continue reading Steve →

20 Years

20 years ago today. Wow! But, let’s start three days earlier… It was midafternoon on my second day of travel from home. A cold, bleary, Ohio winter day. What early January generally brings to the Midwest. I was traveling under the final underpass before my exit off I75. It was Sunday and I had to … Continue reading 20 Years →